Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States today. I wish him well. Today is not a day to pick nits. I will say that I have little doubt that Ronald Reagan’s disposition and its effect on huge swaths of the population hastened the demise of the socioeconomic malaise the … Read more
Well, here we are, kids. Tonight is George W. Bush’s last night in the President’s Bedroom. I don’t have much to say about it—certainly nothing rivaling the extensive treatments, both positive and negative, he’s getting elsewhere online. I voted for him twice, somewhat less enthusiastically in 2004 than in 2000, but haven’t thought of myself … Read more
Most of the Xbox 360 games I like to play are violent, scary, gory, or some combination of the three, so generally I have to play them after little boys have gone to bed. Over the Christmas break, Lea walked in on a gnarly Gears of War 2 session. “I don’t know how you sleep,” … Read more