To the Graduating Class of 2011

To my fellow students, esteemed faculty, and treasured guests, welcome.  You may be surprised to see me standing up here today, as I am not enrolled in your class and have never met any of you, but I read the speech that the guy who was supposed to be up here wrote, and believe me, […]

Free Cone Day

Yesterday was Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day, which is one of my favorite federal holidays, and so every year, in observance of this solemn day of gratitude, I pile the kids into the car and take a cross-town road trip to eat free ice cream.  This year, the closest Ben & Jerry’s to my […]