First They Gerrymander Us Into One-party Fiefs.

In College, The Guys Aren't Worrying About Whether They'll Be Able To Pursue Their Career Dreams And Still Have Kids.

If Christmas Is For Families, What Do You Do When There Are Families Scattered All Over The Country? I Am Pretty Sure God Wants To Make Sure I Touch All The Bases, Even If I Spend His Actual Birthday With Delta Airlines.

You Know, I Have A Lot Of Books On My Ipad, But When I Try To Read Them, I Find Myself Wandering Off To Play Games. Those Are Books I'm Interested In. I Can't Imagine What Would Have Happened To Me In College If My Biology Class Had Been On The Same Computer As "words With Friends" And "doom."

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.

Any Time You Write History, You Insert Your Opinion. You Pick And Choose What You Are Going To Write About. I Feel Really Happy Not Inserting Myself. I Spend Too Much Of My Life Inserting Myself. It's Just Great To Let Other People Carry The Narrative.