If you’ve been keeping up with my posts about my Six Weeks of Rush challenge, then you’ve already been introduced to Nola Gurl, the kindest and most vocal of the few conservatives who haven’t unfollowed or blocked @SixWeeksofRush on Twitter. And if you’ve been keeping up with our conversations, then you’ve probably noticed that things have […]

Big thanks to my brother Jon and his ladyfriend Jocelyn for giving my wife and I the opportunity to check out Rush last night at the Air Canada Centre! Despite my misgivings about bringing an actual woman to such a nerdy, boy-heavy rock show, we had a terrific time, and I was able to cross […]

Six Weeks of Rush follower Nola Gurl tweeted a link yesterday to a 2009 article about a study by the Pew Research Center, which suggests that people who listen to Rush Limbaugh are better informed than the viewers and listeners of most other media outlets. “The poll tested the audiences of a host of news magazines, radio […]

A few months ago, I wrote an article for Shameless about some of the challenges a man has to face in the course of trying to raise a daughter these days. That article is in the current issue, which you can now find wherever quality independent magazines for fierce young women are sold. Many thanks […]

Yes, I’ve officially given up on my Six Weeks of Rush challenge, without even crossing the halfway point. After just two weeks of listening to this show, I’ve concluded that there’s nothing I can learn from it in another four weeks that I haven’t already learned from the first two (or that I could learn […]

Well, that was a little embarrassing. The good people at Twitter chose to suspend the @SixWeeksofRush account the other night, right in the middle of an episode recap and everything. It’s back online now, but of course it’ll take me some time to get back into the swing of things. I’d like to be able […]

When I started my Six Weeks of Rush challenge on the first of the month, I didn’t know what to expect from the show, and I didn’t know how I’d comment on it. I started off by checking facts and critiquing assumptions, but I quickly realized that this was pointless. The lies, manipulation and flawed […]

For those of you keeping score, today’s the first day of my well-intended but ultimately disastrous Six Weeks of Rush ordeal. As I noted in a prior post, I’ll be tuning into the show live from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM, but because I’ll be at work I won’t be tweeting about it until this […]

“This is what it’s all about,” I said to myself the other day as I watched my wife play with my baby daughter. Everything that’s important to me was pretty much, in that moment, right there in front of me. “In fact,” I thought, “if the mafia were to kill these two right now, I […]

Here’s another honest question that I hope to address in the course of my Six Weeks of Rush challenge. It’s not a rhetorical question, and it doesn’t have to wait until we kick things off on Monday, so do feel free to share your thoughts and opinions in the comments. How is it that some […]