Another shooting at my daughter’s high school this morning
"\"TweetShareShareMy daughter has said, without irony, that she thinks she\\u2019s going to get shot at school. Two faculty just did, and so did Luis Garcia just last...
UCLA Parents’ Weekend: A few impressions
"\"TweetShareShareA dad’s experience gets him to thinking about his own college life — and lasting...
What the hell is “Grammar Geezers”?
"\"TweetShareShareA YouTube series to share the writing and grammar wisdom of John...
Some background on my new book, “A Beard Cut Short”
"\"TweetShareShareQuick summary: a blog post led to a...
Coronavirus is exponential math in human lungs
"\"TweetShareShareI have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir\\u2019s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it\\u2019s serious...
A litmus test for parents of would-be pro athletes
"\"TweetShareShareI recently had dinner with a friend who’s plugged into professional sports. We got to talking about the across-the-board athleticism in pro sports. Take football: all the different sizes and body types mask the underlying...
Did you have a life-changing professor? Mine got fired on Aug. 3.
"\"TweetShareShareI posted this on the Wolverine Forum, the University of Michigan Alumni Association’s online community a few days ago; figured it should see the light outside the community’s gates and re-post here. For those of you...
The Queen of Sh*#$% Robots
"\"TweetShareShareNote: I’ve been writing Medium.com posts in the lead-up to the second-annual Brain Bar Budapest this June (did the same last year). If you’re in the neighborhood, this year’s lineup is awesome. Comedy comes in...
The arrogance of ignorance
"TweetShareShareIt\u2019s become accepted in many quarters to associate the wielding of facts or knowledge with arrogance. Typically the term is applied to political liberals \u2013 coastal elites, the blue-state bloviators, whatever one might cal...
A new political vocabulary for a new political reality
"TweetShareShareAs this 2016 presidential race has shown, 21st century America could use\u00a0a new political vocabulary. We need some shiny new words, ones capable of capturing the subtleties and not-so-subtleties of candidate as well as voter be...
Brain Bar Budapest via blog posts
"\"TweetShareShareAn old friend of mine touched base a couple of months back, wondering if I’d like to do some writing for Brain Bar Budapest. My first question was: for Brain-what? As freelancers tend to do, I said yes. They were looking...
Highest and best use of cassette tapes in 2016
"\"TweetShareShareI picked up my seventh-grade daughter at the Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences (nee Roscoe C. Hill Middle School) in Denver early today. Waiting in the lobby, I perused art. I am always struck by the creativity of the average...