Tad's Happy Funtime

Part 1: Call Me Maybe (Not) My life as a working man started out in what many would consider "menial jobs" - first as the fry ...

Words mean things. Sometimes, it gets really confusing, because the same word can mean different things - like the way "fly" can...

This is a tale of a phone call faux pas. First of many, and just one reason why I cannot stand the telephone to this day. My father was a ...

I am listening to my two sons read to each other from my Bloom County books in the living room.  This is an uncomfortable thing.  Why? Becau...

In 2011, I posted a musing after the State of the Union address which poked at a couple of the President's less stellar ideas, and pann...

I am not an economist.  In fact, I try to make it clear to people that I'm generally pretty bad with numbers.  I *do* get the concepts t...

from November, 2004 "Well, I thought about the Army," Dad said, 'Son, you're f***ing high!' "So I thought, ...