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What’s harder than teaching soccer to 5-year-olds? Teaching soccer to 5-yr-olds in 93 degree heat. They call it a “mutiny.”

Taking Maggie to her first soccer practice. Will try my best not to swear at 5-year-olds.

Took a rare trip to the movies this weekend and watched the new Judd Apatow movie Funny People. It wasn’t what I expected, in ways both bad and good. If this is Apatow’s attempt at making a Woody Allenesque transition from comedies to dramas, I frankly hope it is a big failure. While Funny People [...]

John Hughes was just as, and possibly more, important to my teenage years as he was to anyone else’s from my generation. I was 12 when Sixteen Candles was released, the perfect age to inherit Hughes’ warning of impending teenage dysfunction, and my eerie resemblance to Anthony Michael Hall in both looks and manner was [...]

It may be surprising that I’m sympathetic (but not empathetic!) to calls for some kind of public health care system. That is, I understand and even agree with most of the gut feelings that are fueling support for the Democrats’ propositions (insurance companies suck, good coverage is expensive, it would be neat if we could [...]

My 3-year-old son makes me think of this song about 6 times a day.
“Everybody knows, it sucks to grow up.”
So true. Now get over it.
YouTube – Ben Folds- Still Fighting It.
(Special thanks to Sony, who graciously resists embedding this video. Screw free marketing!)

Will a lawsuit spell the end of Skype?.