Lea and I met in July 1994. It was the beginning of one of the greatest earthly blessings I have. The short, polite, cocktail party, we-don’t-feel-like-getting-into-it version is that we “met through mutual friends.” The real story is documented here, in a post that is closing on six years old. We enjoyed determining tonight, over … Read more
Can it be Christmas without Santa Claus? What if Santa Claus is actually one of the attackers in the “war on Christmas”? There are several ways in which I can be reasonably described as conservative, and I’ll be the first to tell you that “that’s the way we’ve always done it” is no reason all … Read more
So argues Jonah Goldberg in an excellent column today. I’m as tacky as they come in plenty of situations, but it’s very much a time and place thing. I can remember watching an IndyCar race with the boys when they were 8 and 5 maybe, and a couple times an hour a commercial would air … Read more