Sentence of Dave

I like when the weather gets cold and rainy because then I feel like I'm getting my money's worth out of my house.

Nancy Isenberg's treatise White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America  is a detailed slog through the swampy history o...

This week on The Test , I give the ladies a numbers quiz with minimal math (although things still get fairly ugly, numerically speaking) ...

I was stopped at a light on Woodbridge Avenue today, and I heard a short "BEEP" but I didn't think it was intended for me; at ...

My son Alex has been on my case to read Invincible , a comic series co-written by Robert Kirkman (the writer of The Walking Dead comics) an...

Though Sam Harris often comes off as a pretentious douche (and his podcast has absurdly bombastic theme music) but despite this shortcoming ...

Sunday we played in Philipsburg and it was ungodly humid and we were assaulted by gnats, and then at practice yesterday I got all bitten up ...

The Rutgers Expository Writing class stresses the importance of "unpacking" the prompt-- the students need to really mull ove...

One night this summer, my kids and I began  The Godfather--  a movie we greatly anticipated watching together, because we all enjoyed Goodfe...

Cunningham leads our triumphant return with this extraordinary effort on the federal budget . . . her command of all things fiduciary wil...

The recent spate of awfulness-- the mass shooting in Vegas, floods and hurricanes, infrastructure and budgetary problems dealing with floods...

Once I was fast, but alas, that time has passed.

It's rare that a perfectly just punishment is meted out for a crime-- a reprisal not overly rash and vengeful but also not anemically sy...

This has been a tough week in our house-- not only did rock legend Tom Petty's soul pass into the great wide open, but it also looks lik...

Some people prefer The Beatles , others go for The Rolling Stones (I'm a Stones guy) but everybody, every red-blooded American, loves ...

Once autonomous self-driving cars become ubiquitous, it might be time for the United States (and the 12 other countries with a drinking age ...

If you'd like some anti-Trump fodder with more policy analysis and less ad hominem rhetoric, listen to the new episode of Freakonomics: ...

Once the oceans and the robots rise up and destroy us, after the nukes and the supervolcanoes have exploded, and the straggling remainder ar...

It's rare that an outsider makes my blog twice in one week-- I have so many fascinating thoughts and opinions that it's hard for int...

The Guinness Book of World Records  was the brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of Guinness Brewery . . . in 1951, he got i...