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…

This weekend was my birthday. I know that I look so freakishly young, it’s hard to imagine that I have birthdays at all. But nay! I am human. No matter how many teachers, employers and old girlfriends have called me “inhuman”. …

I don’t play golf. In part it’s because I’m bad at the game. Last time I played, I shot in the low 80s, but then the second hole was even worse. Someone once told me that watching me play golf was like watching someone rollerskate up a flight of stairs…

I’m a person of ritual. If I do something two or three times, it becomes a permanent part of the routine. Whether it’s daily morning exercise, semi-annual showers or never, ever paying my taxes, I’m a creature of habit. One such habit has been my nightly insistence on faithfully watching…

Democracy. It is a system of government that promises much. It boldly declaims that governmental legitimacy is gained exclusively through the consent of the governed. Throughout history the alternatives to democracy were uttery indifferent to that consent. …