I'm not sure why, but I have a really hard time saying we live a green lifestyle. All things being equal, compared to our old neighbors who drove a giant SUV, seemed to be trying to crank out as many kids as physically possible, and probably used their recycling bins as kindling to burn their [...]

I'm not a big gun fan. I've never understood hunting -- I think if your favorite past time is shooting something just to watch it die and your favorite scene in Bambi is when his mother bites it, there's something seriously wrong with you. And please don't write to me about how you do it [...]

Over the last ten years, I've joked -- sometimes in a not so jokey way -- about moving to Canada. I'm not sure why I assume all the lumberjacks, professional curlers, and comedians up there are liberals. They're probably all stockpiling guns, reading Sarah Palin books, and planning their secession from Quebec.Political/sociological classification-wise, I guess [...]

Tenzin and I realized today that we've both developed a sudden desire to move. His is because his job is looking sketchy. Mine is just, well, because. Some of the "because" may have to do with the documentary I saw on people teaching their 5-year-olds to shoot assault weapons. And the feeling that we never [...]