Sentence of Dave

I finished S-Town  this afternoon, and I won't spoil anything-- other than the fact that my previous prediction (Bitcoin!) was idiotic ....

I am just starting episode five of S-Town , the fantastic new podcast from the producers of This American Life  and Serial , and I have a bo...

The Median Voter Theorem-- an idea based on Harold Hoteling's theory of spatial competition, which Anthony Downs linked to the U.S. ...

My wife and I escaped from the children this weekend and enjoyed some unscheduled time in the City of Brotherly Love . . . and while we ...

Did the lobbyists who perpetuate our flawed and byzantine healthcare system conspire with the lobbyists who block tax reform ?-- because th...

Now that music is essentially free (Spotify, YouTube, etc.) and streamable, will creditors grant amnesty to those who are still delinquent o...

At what rate must you consume a 48 ounce plastic jug of garden fresh Costco salsa in order to finish it before it goes sour?

Cat and I are leaving the kids with my parents and heading to the City of Brotherly Love for the weekend, so I'll provide you some...

From the man who provided this  phenomenal (but inappropriate) band name,  gratis, here's another . . . it's a bit more intellectual...

It turns out that my new mind-reading machine is fairly useless-- I thought it might be interesting to read Donald Trump's mind, but his...

Just got my new mind-reader operating, so I pointed it at Paul Ryan's brain and found this gem: people will enjoy their own subpar healt...

I was tired today, despite a good night's sleep and I just realized why . . . I'm exhausted from watching all that NCAA basketball--...

This week on The Test , Dave and Stacey learn that a lot of stuff is made of other kinds of stuff . . . and Cunningham knows what that stu...

Kong: Skull Island  is an entertaining mash-up of Apocalypse Now and every archetypal monster-movie trope; while it certainly has it's s...

Occasionally, the master becomes the student, and a good teacher will accept this turning of the tables and try to glean as much wisdom as p...

Last week,  I nearly descended into madness , and this week, my podcasting partner Stacey flirted with her own lunatic demons; over the w...

Where It Hurts , a noir crime thriller set on Long Island-- but nowhere near the Hamptons-- is about as dark and violent as the genre gets, ...

My friend Terry would not shut up yesterday about the imminent blizzard-- he kept abreast of the weather forecast on a minute-to-minute basi...

If you thought you were going to escape my semi-annual DST  rant, you've got another thing coming-- and while I understand great for...

Perhaps the easiest way to happily plunge into the surveillance state is to embrace the comforting notion that your mind is not your own, be...