Why do Americans still dislike atheists?

Don’t get me wrong–I don’t proclaim to be the most revolutionary thinker of our time, but I can’t help but shake my head at the constant stream of inane and unoriginal blather exchanged within social networking (e.g. Facebook, Twitter).  Granted, there is plenty of original thinking and insightful commentary as well, but it’s in the […]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704463804576291181510459902.html?mod=googlenews_wsj No wonder Twilight author Stephenie Meyer and her even less talented wannabe counterparts are making money off of this poor excuse for a literary genre–which would be better described as “chick lit porn”.  At least call it for what it is, rather than try and whore it up as anything but trashy romance “novels” under […]

And Dilbert succinctly describes the difference between my wife and I when it comes to our tastes in movies…

Also: I’m wondering when it was, exactly, when I started relating more to Calvin’s dad instead of Calvin…

OK, maybe it’s not really “new”, but it’s a trend I’ve noticed during the past several years… At some point–after I became a married man and father, unfortunately–Halloween somehow made the transformation from a holiday where children dressed up in costumes and went door-to-door innocently soliciting candy from their neighbors…to an occasion for women to […]

It was about 10:30 tonight, when I happened to walk by my desk and notice that my mobile phone was ringing.  (It was still set to “vibrate”–which is how I keep it at work; I forgot to turn the ringer back on.)  I didn’t recognize the area code of the incoming call, but I decided […]

I was at the pool with my family today, and while I was at the concession stand with my youngest son, I heard a song on the PA system that caught my attention. Thanks to the Shazam app on my phone (which never fails to amaze me, by the way), I learned that the song […]