There comes a time in every dad’s life when he realizes he’s no longer the competitor he used to be. Somewhere along the line he’s lost the skills and reflexes of his youth and his kids can beat him. It’s the day when he passes the video game crown to the next generation. I [...]

  If I’m the master of my household pets, why was I the one standing in line at the pet supply superstore shepherding two carts through the check-out line? The answer is simple; I’m a pawn of the pet-tech-industrial complex. In case you missed it, pet supplies have become big business in this country. The [...]

The real problem with television isn’t violence, or inappropriate content, or news stories which appear to have been invented just before the cameras rolled. The real problem is that kids are imitating the stuff they see between the commercials. Kids grow up watching ER (now airing its fifty-first ‘episode that changes everything’?) and they’re just [...]

  Sometimes I feel like my life is really a movie; you know the kind where there’s some kind of cipher and everyone else is in on the secret but me … The DUH-Vinci Code. It’d probably be a lot easier if people stopped trying to communicate and just talked. Part of the problem is [...]