The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love I became a father for the first time seventeen years ago this January. No one could have told me then, though they certainly tried to in varying forms of both inspirational hyperbole and threatening menace, that my life would be dramatically transformed from that day forward. Flash forward all […]
The Meritocracy of Sports
The Meritocracy of Sports When it comes to watching television, my girlfriend and I are often at an unmitigated impasse. I like watching sports, and she wants to watch cooking shows. For the life of me, I cannot understand devoting my leisure time to watching others performing a household chore that I absolutely hate doing. […]
The Day That Justice Died
The Day That Justice Died I don’t mean to tell you that I told you so, but, man, I freakin’ told you so. When Republicans literally stole a Supreme Court seat in the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s passing, I told you that it would have vast, wide-ranging implications for decades to come. I told […]