GenX Dad’s spend more time with their kids

…and prefer to spend less time on the job, according to a Creative Class blog article, which cites data from a Deloit & Touche research.
I know that’s true of me, and I love it! I’d rather spend my time hanging with my daughter, Addy, then sitting in some fucking meeting that’ll turn your brain into [...]

My favorite cereal

Over the weekend, my wife and daughter went shopping and brought me back a treat — Count Chocula cereal! Mmmmm. Sugar crack!

Actually, I’m pretty sure it was my daughter’s idea. She’s excited to be a vampire for Halloween this year. In fact, she wants my wife and I to be vampires as well. A vampire [...]

Check out these blogs

These come from a fellow Eastern Michigan alum, whom I read about in my recent alum magazine. His name is David Donar and he has two blogs.
The first one is political graffiti and it features his political cartoons. I dig political cartoons.
The other one is donklephant, a political blog for those “tired of rhetoric, bomb-throwing, [...]

Check out this blog

Added a new blog to my blog roll. By one my wife’s  high school friends — Jaime. Very cooly titled: You too? I thought I was the only one… Check it out. Jamie is very funny. Her sense of humor is offbeat and smart. Her observations about being a young mom are particulatrly witty.

Every comment on this post equals $1 for leukemia research!

My GenX blogging buddy, JenX67, is sponsoring a fundraising effort to fund leukemia research, in honor of the son of a friends who died one year ago on Sept. 27th at the tender age of 10 years old. Please help. It does not require a monetary donation, only a post to her blog posting here. [...]

Obama, the Hawk

 

Even Christopher Hitchens on slate.com thinks Obama out-hawked McCain in the debate on Friday night. Although he did object to both candidates kowtowing to the likes of Kissinger, which is hard to argue with, so I won’t.

Bicycle commuting slacker, that’s me

I’ve been really slacking off on riding my bike to work lately, especially last week in which I only rode in one day, even though the entire week’s weather was pretty riding friendly.
So this morning when I saw it was some 60 degress and might get up to 70 with sunshine, I made sure to [...]

Does McCain think he’s Tom Cruise?

Just got a great txt message from my cuz in Iowa, in which he observed that in the debate McCain seems to think that he is Tom Cruise.
First, by claiming to be Maverick and then repeatedly insisting about 400 times that “you don’t understand” what apparently he does understand.
Could McCain be a secret Scientologist? It’s [...]

The Debate

Just finished watching the debate. Well, some of it anyway. I missed much of the first part, when they talked about the economy. But I caught much of the discussion on foreign policy — on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. — and I thought Obama showed that he knows his stuff and can be a successful [...]

Name the movie

From this quote:
“A telephone call?  That’s communication with the outside world!  Doctor’s discretion.  Hey, if alla these nuts could just make phone calls, it could spread.  Insanity oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all those poor sane people, infecting them!  Whackos everywhere!  A plague of madness.”