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Let Me Tell You About Sundays
Let me tell you about Sundays. Sundays are terrific. You can run errands or be lazy. You can go to church or sleep in. You can watch a game or read a book. You can eat brunch or work out. … Continue reading
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Tagged Commentary, General Culture and News, Life, Personal, Writing
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Best of 2016
Happy New Year! Since today is (observed as) New Year’s Day, I thought I would go through the usual motions of curating the best material I generated in 2016 and putting it all in one post. 2016 included a fairly … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Academia, Best Of, Commentary, Constitutional Law, Free Speech, General Culture and News, Intellectual Property, James Bond, Jerry Remy, Online Dating, Real Tennis, Red Sox, Site Stuff, Stanislav Petrov, Supreme Court, The Supreme Court of the United States
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Ten Things I Learned in 2016
2016 was a . . . well, it was definitely a year. I learned a lot this year, though! Yes, 2016 provided some terrific opportunities for learning—sometimes via the proverbial “hard way.” Here, in no particular order, are some of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016, Commentary, General Culture and News, Humor, Kidding Not Kidding, Site Stuff
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Untitled Online Dating Podcast
Online dating is the worst, right? Well, maybe not the worst, but it’s not all rainbows and lollipops, either. Except maybe grindr. Or so I’ve heard. Anyway, this week, I present a podcast that’s an adapted and updated version of an … Continue reading
Posted in General Culture and News, Podcasts
Tagged Bumble, eHarmony, General Culture and News, Hinge, Humor, Match, OKCupid, Online Dating, Personal, Podcasts, Reviews, Storytelling, Tinder
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Untitled Online Dating Article
I say every year around birthday time that I permit myself one post that actually relates to some aspect of my life. This is a break from my usual, ironclad rule. I think it’s incontrovertible fact that everyday people blogging … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, General Culture and News, Reviews
Tagged Commentary, eHarmony, General Culture and News, Hinge, Humor, Match, OKCupid, Online Dating, Personal, Reviews, Tinder
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Time to Bury Academia?
The signs of the institutional terminal illness of the American university are increasingly plentiful. The stories out of Missouri and Yale and a half-dozen other places in recent months might be easily dismissed as the grumblings of an entitled generation—and they … Continue reading
Best of 2015
A move, the first full year of a new job, and increasingly demanding writing responsibilities further compromised my ability to generate content for this website on a regular basis. However, I did managed to write 25 pieces. This year also … Continue reading
The Mob Goes Trophy Hunting
I don’t hunt and — at the risk of losing my “Real American” bona fides — I also don’t own a firearm. In fact, I have never pulled the trigger on anything more powerful than a pellet gun. I can’t drive … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Cecil the Lion, Commentary, General Culture and News, Hunting, Justice, Mobs, PETA, Social Media, Wildlife
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Real Americans
I’m not going to address this past weekend’s events specifically. There are already hundreds of columns covering every aspect of what happened in Charlottesville (and what is happening, to a lesser extent, in Seattle and Richmond and elsewhere). Instead, I’d … Continue reading →