Sometimes, the Network Neutrality debate makes me feel like a grumpy old policy wonk. Well, I suppose I am a grumpy old policy wonk, but its rather unfair of the folks in the NN debate to make me feel that way — especially when they know better.
The most recent reminder of my age and wisdom/oncoming [...]

Growing up in Tucson, I thought that city elections were supposed to be partisan just like legislative and Congressional elections.  When I moved to Phoenix, I realized that Tucson’s system was unusual.  When I became less naive about politics, I realized that Tucson’s system was designed to designed to disenfranchise Republicans.  When I went to [...]

I think that one of the best things about having children in our lives is that they remind us to look at life in a different way. More often that not, kids put a positive spin on things for us. They bring out the humor and fun in a situation.
I’ve got a specific example in [...]

One of the things that I do at the end of each year is to add new things to my life list. This is the list of things that I want to do before I die. I try to think of as many things as possible. Then I try to organize them by realistic chronological [...]

My son has been diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency for a few years now, and he’s just recently become really interested in professional sports.  He actually came home yesterday from school and wanted to know if he was taking illegal drugs (he takes human growth hormone).  I asked him why on earth he thought [...]