A recent national poll showed that 60% of Americans think that there will be a new civil war within the next ten years. That is stunning. …

For much of my 20s, student loans were among my biggest problems. Yes, yes, along with my personality and wardrobe selection. No need to write to me!. You see, I went to four years of college and three years of law school. That’s almost seven years of higher education. (Hey…

As I begin this article, I honestly don’t know which side I will come down on. That is not typical for me. For better or worse, I usually sit down to write with a clear point of view. “Cannibalism is good”. “Leaving the tails on shrimp is bad”. “I like…

Almost everybody has a last name. Some, like Sting, Madonna, Cher and, apparently now Ye, don’t actually use them. But they all came into the world with one. For most people, whatever last name they have is largely irrelevant to the path of their life. You can be a proud…

There are certain things which happen with such inexorable repetitiveness that you can simply count on them. A clock strikes 12 every hour on the hour. Unless of course it’s my crappy Fitbit, which has taken to losing six to eight minutes per hour, which I didn’t think was even…

I believe in people popping by unannounced to use my pool anytime. I’m deeply committed to this. But if you show up at my pool without calling first, I’ll shoot you with one of my crossbows. (I have an extensive collection). If you feel that the previous two sentences were…

While people who are great at things are really great at them, hence the reason we say they are great at the thing they are great at (this article gets better, I promise), they are not equally great every time they set out to do that thing. Which, to be…

I have watched a lot of Supreme Court confirmation hearings in my day. I acknowledge that if someone led with that sentence on their Tinder page, they wouldn’t be getting a lot of right-swipes. More likely, a lot of people viewing their bio would instead throw their phone into a…