I don't know whether it is true that you're only as old as you feel. I always feel the age I am, so maybe I'm...

24 May, 2013

I don't watch much TV. In fact, I was a cord cutter before the Internet was in most homes. I hate paying for cable because...

16 May, 2013

[caption id="attachment_10168" align="alignleft" width="225"] I've got this whatever-it-is, and I'm not afraid to use it.[/caption] "I like your little beard." The speaker was an Eastern European in...

13 May, 2013

In case you’re not familiar, “the Uncanny Valley,” was coined to describe a robotics phenomenon. Scientists discovered the more accurately a robot was rendered, the...

09 May, 2013

In the ongoing debate about nostalgia's value, I fall pretty decisively on the nostalgia-is-horrible side. In the ongoing debate about the objectification of women, I...

03 May, 2013

The title of this week's Todcast and accompanying blog was, in a way, lifted from the headlines of last week's Dispatch. I have an odd...

12 April, 2013

Earlier this week, a celebrity chef complained there was such a thing as the "Top 50 Women Chefs" and a friend of mine solicited comments...

05 April, 2013

I love monster nightmares. I am a grownup, overweight white male with a little beard. There is nothing in my real life of which I'm...

29 March, 2013

It is, at this point, almost beyond trite to make fun of politicians. Also, it is getting a little exhausting to defend or indict the press. Simply...

23 March, 2013

It is not new or interesting to say the newspaper business is changing, but as a news ex-pat I'm less worried than most about it. The fact...

15 March, 2013
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