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Jerks of the Week: April 1, 2022 Jerks of the Week: April Fools and April Truths X: The Magical Ride It feels odd to begin an April Fools and April Truths entry without explaining why I failed to contact Jonathan Frakes to help me recite some of the key questions in the entry. That is,…

Jerks of the Week: March 28, 2022 Jerks of the Week: Mouse Fighting Most of you know me as a football Web site owner. Some of you may even recognize me as a sports journalist. Almost none of you, however, know that I am a world-class champion mouse fighter. In fact, I’d be willing to…

Jerks of the Week: March 21, 2022 Jerks of the Week: Welcome to My Frustration Unless you completely ignored the bar near the top of this page, you know that you can get an ad-free version of this Web site for $7.99 per month. I explained why I wanted to offer this alternative via the…

Jerks of the Week: March 14, 2022 Jerks of the Week: Old Bikini Lady and the Germany Consulate I haven’t been going to the gym much since my son Conrad was born. As you can imagine, my schedule is much busier now that I’m a father of a newborn. Granted, I’m not doing nearly as…

Jerks of the Week: March 7, 2022 Jerks of the Week: The Hungry Basketball Player I saw one of the dumbest commercials I’ve seen in a long time this past weekend, and it made me realize that I haven’t written a commercial-centric Jerks of the Week entry in quite a while. For those of you…

Jerks of the Week: Feb. 28, 2022 Jerks of the Week: Patricia’s Pursuers I talked to someone recently who told me that they were glad they weren’t still in the dating game because finding someone during the pandemic would be impossible. It hadn’t even dawned on me that this would be the case. I guess…

Jerks of the Week: Feb. 21, 2022 Jerks of the Week: Hospital for Childbirth, Part 3 I didn’t realize this would happen, but my wife, newborn son and I were moved to a different room from the one in which we stayed the first two nights. This post-birth room resembled more of a nursery rather…

Jerks of the Week: Feb. 14, 2022 Jerks of the Week: Hospital for Childbirth, Part 2 My wife and I were in the hospital for 36 hours before our son was born. We spent most of the time watching reruns of Family Matters, The Office and The George Lopez Show, at least until the nurses…

Jerks of the Week: Feb. 7, 2022 Jerks of the Week: Hospital for Childbirth, Part 1 I’d like to thank everyone for congratulating me on the birth of my son, Conrad. I posted that my wife was pregnant on the picks page back in September just to alert everyone that there would be one week,…

Jerks of the Week: Jan. 31, 2022 Jerks of the Week: Lawn String Karen Man I always thought that people who care about their lawn was a trope on TV. In certain shows and movies, you’ll always see a man in his 40s wearing a tucked-in polo shirt and knee-high khaki shorts constantly mowing, trimming…