Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have been looking into the effectiveness of different parenting strategies. Good timing, especially given the national debate we’re having about when it’s appropriate to shoot your daughter’s laptop.

I don’t want to care about Tommy Jordan. His daughter is not my daughter, and I [...]

Wow, a month between updates? Amazing. Doubly so, considering that it’s less than a year to Election Day.

Last weekend I took some time to prune my RSS and Twitter feeds. If we’ve exchanged emails or worked together, don’t worry — I was pruning people who didn’t know me and probably [...]

OK, time to get Hell out of the top slot here.

Yesterday I called and cancelled my satellite television, just like I said I was going to do in June. The plan is to use Netflix, iTunes, interesting podcasts, and maybe some DVD purchases and rentals for our evening entertainment.

I remember in elementary school when a bunch of kids would come up with some sort of joke and decide not to let me in on it because I wasn’t cool enough. I thought those days were behind me, but thanks to Facebook I can live them again.

Go on ladies…and let’s have all the [...]

Timothy Burke has a lot to say about political debate, some of which describes quite nicely how I feel about the issue at the moment. I don’t post as much about politics here any more because I don’t read as much about politics.

Here, I’ll let you read this:

After being without cable television for several years we ordered satellite service when we moved into our house. When the two-year contract period is up, we’re going to cancel.

There’s actually nothing wrong with the transmission service that isn’t also wrong with, say, cell phone companies. They got the television signal reliably to our [...]

Sometimes it is better to mock than it is to approach with nuance. Thers of Whiskey Fire explains why:

One of the things I learned in grad school was that any argument about anything can be “won” if you’re willing to be bloody-minded enough … it takes acres, miles, tons, metric assloads of blogging [...]

I don’t normally read Copyblogger, but I someone linked the “rule of 24” on Twitter and I was curious. So I clicked through. Copyblogger Larry Brooks starts badly:

Sometimes the biggest problems have the simplest solutions. Want to lose weight? Simple. Consume fewer calories than you burn each day. Improve [...]

This post was not written on an iPad. You know this because the iPad cannot be used to create. It is merely a cynical content consumption device. So I certainly did not pair my bluetooth keyboard to the iPad, open up the WordPress app, and write this post.

Other things I did not do [...]

There is a movement afoot to pressure McDonalds into getting rid of their mascot, ranking Ronald alongside Camel’s cartoon, the Marlboro Man, and Spudz.

I’m not a fan of commercials targeting children, but it happens. Are we really trying to make the fast food companies “more responsible?” Or are we just trying [...]