I spent 18 years of my life making laws. More accurately, since I spent 16 of those 18 years in the minority, I mostly voted NO on laws other people made. But nonetheless, I was involved in the lawmaking process. During this time, I saw it all. There were laws…

This week I did something awesome! You may think your life is full of excitement and glamor. You may be flying on a private jet to Cannes to see the latest Scorsese movie “Old Mob Guys Kill People”. You may be eating Alpaca livers with the Rolling Stones in Ibiza…

I’ve never been a huge fan of bumper stickers. They tend to bring nothing but trouble. How many people have been decapitated because they tailgated the car in front of them trying to read a bumper sticker printed in newspaper-sized type? Probably not a lot. But even zero is a…

My grandmother used to have a saying. “You shouldn’t need a Sidewinder missile to shoot down a Chinese balloon”. Grandma was a profoundly strange woman who spent her later years publicly threatening to eat various foreign leaders. Nonetheless, she did kind of have a point. Over the past week or…

I suffer from insomnia. I actually have many conditions, foibles and quirks. But most of them involve the infliction of suffering on others. Insomnia is the one thing I have which actually causes me to suffer. On average, two-three nights per week I find myself just staring at the ceiling…

Should We Replace Judges with Artificial Intelligence? There are a lot of things about the world these days which justifiably cause people to freak out. We’ve got impending nuclear war, imminent ecological collapse, a new Phil Collins album (not necessarily in that order). The menacing list of horribles we are…

Too often in America, political parties are accused of having no new ideas, and too often that’s true. So when a political party does come forward with a genuinely game-changing initiative, they deserve our respect and appreciation for contributing meaningfully to the debate, regardless of the merits of their suggestion. …

I like to watch a good sporting event as much as the next guy. Roller Derby is an obvious favorite, but “Bowling for Dollars” can be fun! And I can’t begin to count the number of hours I’ve spent watching the Titans of Peruvian Curling keeping it real. But as…

When I was running for political office, I would sometimes embellish. Not my resume so much. I thought most people don’t really care about where I went to college or that I managed to survive three summers working at Dorney Park, not getting fired until season 3. I also thought…