Sentence of Dave

My sources tell me that Alec Baldwin is incredibly thankful to the American people, for providing him four more years to lampoon a self-prof...

This will be my last political post about the presidential election (unless have a Bush/Gore situation) and I already did my best to summari...

My wife stole some hot peppers from a unkempt plot in the community garden-- she said they were going to go to waste if no one took them-- a...

Though I know this is a stupid waste of time, because most people are voting based on what scandal has piqued their ire more-- mishandling e...

Nathan Hill's new novel The Nix  is a tour-de-force decade defining portrayal that does for the post-recession twenty-tens what Tom Wolf...

Here is what I learned about my dog today: if I snap my gum while I'm walking him, he turns into a shivering shell-shocked lump of jell...

It comes from a chicken, not a bunny, dummy . . . and, when I do the boiling-- or when I did  the boiling--   more often than not it came ou...

Those of you familiar with the life and times of Dave know that I am often at the nexus of miraculous activity (which is odd, because ...

I generally like to rant and rave about the idiocy of Halloween, but my son Ian made this year's sugar-laced festivities a bit mor...

I was pleased to learn that Hillary Clinton agreed with me on the importance of Robert D. Putnam's new book Our Kids: The American Dream...

My son Ian scored his first header goal yesterday-- he launched himself into the air to connect with a line drive corner kick, headed the ba...

I hereby declare that next year I will NOT participate in fantasy football, which is not fantastic at all and actually wallows in its mundan...

Planet Money Episode 387: The No-Brainer Economic Platform  may be four years old, but it's more relevant today than ever-- the show pre...

For once Google Play Music recommended exactly what I desired-- though I had no clue that I desired this thing-- an album by the French el...

The new episode of  This American Life  preaches to the choir, and will definitely not be heard by people that need to hear it (like the peo...

Sometimes, when I'm bopping around, I get really happy and think: "My phone plays music!"

I did an assignment in Creative Writing called "Where Do Good Ideas Come From?" and my students had four reading/listening options...

I'm going to go out on a limb here: this is the best episode of The Test    we've ever done . . . it contains the most brilliant q...

While reality has been scary enough recently: I just learned that Trump is an anti-vaxxer, which is more disturbing than the racism, the se...

Tuesday, a student played a song by Twenty One Pilots in class for a presentation, and this was the first time I heard the band and I told t...