Sentence of Dave

When you go to the gym and lift weights, you use resistance training to stress out and damage your muscles and then, eventually, your body r...

If you've never heard of Zardulu, Pizza Rat, Selfie Rat, and That Dragon, Cancer, then you're the same as me a week ago, and if you...

Due to the inclement weather, today's sentence is canceled (or is it?)

I love the metric system and if that makes me a French socialist so be it . . . and if you find it fascinating that in America, the adoption...

Last year my son Ian was the star of Halloween, when he went viral as Eleven from Stranger Things , but this year props go to Alex, whose...

Last weekend felt shorter than normal because I spent the bulk of it watching Bladerunner 2049  (though my son Ian said he thought it went s...

I'd like to publicly thank my wife for a great podcast recommendation-- I listened to both The Skip Tracer Part I and The Skip Tracer P...

I'd prefer if my kids spent this Halloween perpetrating some good old-fashioned mischief and vandalism, rather than begging for sugary s...

To celebrate our 100th episode, Stacey administers a very exciting super test (on tests) and Cunningham and I learn a great deal-- althou...

After a convivial dinner at Lola , a fun rock show at the Old Franklin Schoolhouse  (The Roadside Graves, my favorite local band, finished t...

If you're a fan of Shane Carruth's time-travel film Primer -- which Chuck Klosterman called the finest and most realistic time-trav...

My wife had off yesterday for Diwali-- her district has a high percentage of Indian students and "the festival of lights" is a ver...

My wife and I are making our way through Season 7 of Game of Thrones , and it's obvious Westeros needs Donald Trump far more than the Un...

A few days ago I coined the term "man-ecdote" . . . it's a short tale told by a guy, from a masculine perspective, and if a la...

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 ...