I’m going to do something I thought I never would on this blog.
I admit it. I watch American Idol.
I don’t know how it happened. First, it was just a way to spend time with my wife. Then it was an opportunity to chat with some friends from around the country. [...]

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My new shirt came in the mail yesterday. I’m wearing it this afternoon.
Today at lunch, the boy looked at me with the same, innocent and quizzical eyes. “Who are those guys, Daddy?”
I looked down at my shirt. Two crayons sat on my unimpressive chest. “This is Mr. White and [...]

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“Schadenfreude is the greatest joy.”
Americans, perhaps, caught on late to the concept of schadenfreude. We arrived so deep into the game of reveling in others’ misery that we who speak English don’t even have our own word for it. Maybe it was because, in the early days of colonization, we were too busy [...]

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The following is a transcript of the Tom Cruise Scientology Indoctrination Video that circulated on You Tube and various blogs this week. Reports say the Church of Scientology issued takedown orders to sites that chose to broadcast the video. For the sake of posterity (and as a cure for an hour of boredom), I threw [...]

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It’s a smoky room with a big screen TV, leather couches, and a poker table. It’s where I spend one night a week with a collection of salesmen, developers, engineers, retirees, and dentists. It is where, if only for a few hours a week, we are men. It is a place where we can tell [...]

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