Sentence of Dave

Ian Morris begins his massive history of Eastern and Western social development, Why the West Rules-- for Now: The Patterns of History, and ...

Senior-cut-day has infected my brains and robbed me of my initiative . . . hopefully we'll all be back in gear tomorrow.

In honor of finally finishing Why the West Rules-- for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future, a monstrous tome...

Thursday night at the bar, I had to confirm to a friend that I had butt-dialed him, and he sent back a text that said, "I thought I hea...

We were watching The Matrix  last week in my senior composition class, and we had already covered the philosophical implications of the film...

When we got home from soccer practice last night, Catherine greeted Ian with the statement: "I found something in your bookbag" an...

Although it is well-acted, impeccably structured, and beautifully filmed, watching  Manchester by the Sea is about as much fun as following ...

If you're a fan of big data, breezy writing, fun facts and sex and sex and sex and sex, then you'll certainly enjoy Seth Stephens-Da...

Pick-up basketball night is all about making quick decisions with the ball, and my son Alex is certainly getting better at that-- he made a ...

Another brilliant and creative test idea from Stacey this week, and she thought of it all by herself . . . without the help of a man . . ...

We had a low turnout for this morning's travel soccer game in Flemington; we were missing several key players and had only one substitut...

Last week one of my students said, "It rains every weekend" and I pedantically pointed out how irrational her logic was-- how the ...

I am usually unmoved by celebrity deaths but Chris Cornell's death is more symbolic . . . grunge is now truly dead: Cornell joins Kurt C...

I'll warn you at the start, this is hot stuff, salacious even, so put on your oven mitts and handle it with care: last night my son Ian ...

I haven't put together a will and last testament yet, so this sentence is going to have to suffice: when I die, I want to have a sky bur...

The South China Sea may end up being a battle between the submarines and the "slum encampments on stilts," between China and the r...

The home mortgage income deduction: a ridiculous subsidy to upper middle class and rich folks that will probably never go away because uppe...

This week on The Test , Stacey presents a brilliant set of cinematic puzzles, but despite the high quality of the quiz, a peeing dog, l...

Thursday night, I was offensively flatulent, and I blamed this-- by process of elimination-- on something in the taco meat; Friday, my wife ...

Mercury tilt bombs, Castle Carrickfergus, Jimmy Savile, the Troubles, Belfast, Coronation Road, atrocious scandals, a locked room murder, co...