May 2014

Anna has a single dad who is a borderline obsessive neat freak who does 50 loads of laundry a week and actually thinks that washing dishes is one of the great pleasures in life. As such, this bodes well for her future: While mothers’ gender and work equality beliefs were key factors in predicting kids’ attitudes […]

This sort of thing – explaining the Fermi Paradox and speculating about why we haven’t heard from alien civilizations yet – is my jam. The title of this post sets forth the three basic possibilities of why that may be. (1) That our civilization is exceedingly rare in the universe; (2) That we’re just first […]

I wrote a post about former pitcher and current MLB Network personality Mitch Williams getting into trouble after some boorish and bullying behavior while coaching ten-year-old baseball players. The story, while dealing in controversy, is not itself controversial inasmuch as Williams did not deny the allegations and, as soon as they came out, took a […]

Until very recently, the extent of my Kentucky Derby knowledge and experience came from two sources: (1) the insane multi-sport attention span I had from ages 11 through 18 when I followed EVERYTHING; and (2) Hunter S. Thompson.  Between 1984 and 1991 I could not only tell you everything you wanted to know about baseball, […]