Who is the Elf on the Shelf?

Three days before Christmas I found myself approaching a downtown crosswalk where the crossing light had just turned green. Ahead of me, a homeless man shuffled across the street while a work van waited for the light to turn. As...

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Foot Wedging in the Era of Disengagement

The other day I found myself at the local grocery store on a guerrilla shopping expedition. (Important Sidebar: When on these expeditions, I always take pains to “stay on the path” because as I learned from Captain Ron, there’s a...

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Top 10 Clues That You Work on the Death Star

Not that long ago, in a galaxy pretty close to this one, I worked on the Death Star. It was cold. It was dark. The stench of desperate fear clung to all of the employees and a palpable sense of evil...

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