Twenty years, really? Since that day we said I do. I’m a lucky guy.

We should all be familiar with the tragedy of the commons, right? It’s a basic economic principal. However, watching the news makes it abundantly clear that many people are not familiar, so here it is. The tragedy of the commons is a dilemma arising from the situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently and rationally […]

When I was in high school and college there was a lot of talk about how much better off we’d all be after we shipped all the dirty, labor intensive manufacturing jobs overseas, so we could all live a life of luxury reporting to work every day to do the creative, intellectual work that could […]

I left this as a comment on Google +, but it got long enough to become a blog post on its on, so I’m sharing it here too. The article linked below is a middle school teacher thinking out loud about how we teach history in the US. It’s mostly about the wars, and the […]

For the first time since I was about 13 years old, I don’t have ESPN on cable. The Red Sox were on last night. I do , however, have ESPN3 vis the Xbox, and the Red Sox game was streaming live. It was sort of a different game watching experience. First of all, the Xbox […]

I logged into online chat with DISH Network this morning with the intent of canceling my service and going cable free. The plan was the use the $80 a month savings to fund the $300+ I would need to put a antenna on the roof. I live over 50 miles from the TV towers, so […]

Today in history: On July 20, 1969, Purdue graduate and astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. I was camping on a beach in Italy with my parents, who heard about the successful landings from locals who were also camping on the beach and following the news via radio.

Sometimes a bubble gum pop song is exactly what you want to hear. Pair it with Harry Potter inspired lyrics and you get this.

The first song from the new Butch Walker album. I hope he tours in my neighborhood again this time. If you haven’t been to a Butch Walker show you are missing out. Big time.

My Queensryche roots go deep. Real deep. As in I owned a cassette copy of their EP before their first full length album was even available. (1983?) I have all their records, so there was never any doubt that I would buy Dedicated to Chaos on day 1. So trust me when I say I […]