Because of the school shootings there has been an idea promoted by the NRA of having teachers or school administrators carry firearms. This is why its a dumb idea. The senator was participating in an exercise with rubber bullets and …
A lot has already been written about the coming retirement of Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft. The reporting has mostly attributed the decline of Microsoft to be all Ballmer’s fault, except when it’s everyone’s fault, and how far Microsoft …
This morning was meet the teacher and my son, my second child, is starting Kindergarten. We’ve been down this road as a family before but I was barely tuned in the first time two years ago when my daughter started …
When I first installed Word Press one of the first things I did was turn off commenting. I have run website that allowed commenting before and the spam and offensive bile that would inevitably at some point appear and require …
Yet another article on Slate today that I wanted to share. It’s about the latest science on kids and day care and after reading it I felt it necessary to brag about our decisions regarding childcare. When we had our …
Another thing I love about Slate (there are so many!) are their interactive tools they build to illustrate a point. The latest is a gerrymandering game that partially explains why congress is so broken, Republican’s still rule the house despite …
Today’s sensational breaking news: It’s a girl! Bradley Manning has announced that she’s transgender and wants to be referred to as Chelsea. I’ve run into transgender people here and there, first at college and later when I’m at some party …
One of the reasons I love Slate is they have a lot of diversity in their contributors and a lot of them are not journalist by trade. Recently an article went up written by a software engineer. It’s a well …
With the latest turmoil in Egypt I have been intending to write something on the subject for quite a while. But after reading this article on Slate I realized that almost anything I could add to the debate would only …
I inadvertently invited myself to a girls’ night out last night by taking the initiative to having a night out with my wife. My wife and I have pretty much made the transition from swapping roles but there were a …