This Is The Best Takedown Of The 'Speed Kills' Myth You'll Ever See

"One refrain you hear frequently from insurance companies, police, and the media is that 'speed kills.' It doesn't, and this is the best debunking of that myth that we've ever seen."

What Your Neighborhood List-Serv Tells You About The Demise of America

"When everything is a safety crisis, nothing is. So it should be little surprise that older children are less likely to heed warnings against smoking, drinking and having, in the parlance of modern educators, “unsafe” sex."

My Daughter’s Homework Is Killing Me

 "What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week"

“Forcing” my kids to be vegetarian

"I’m uneasy with the idea of animals being killed to fulfill a need of mine I know can be fulfilled other ways. In the interests of sharing a world with more than 7 billion other people, and doing so without being a jerk, I’d rather reduce my toll on our shared resources. "

Fighting back against talkers and texters at the movies

"There is a larger question: Why is this an epidemic? My hunch is that our culture has become SO private -- meaning people spend so much time watching things on computers and interacting via so-called social media -- they've forgotten how to act in public."