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Jerks of the Week: Jan. 29, 2024 Jerk of the Week: Grade School Musings Everyone has high school reunions, but have you ever had a grade school reunion? I went to mine, and it was wonderful. This grade school reunion was long ago. I had just graduated from Penn State, and I was still living…

Jerks of the Week: Jan. 22, 2024 Jerk of the Week: Swim Instructor Power Rankings I’ve ranked lots of things on this Web site over the years. From teams in my NFL power rankings, to fantasy players in my fantasy football rankings, to quarterbacks in my annual NFL quarterback rankings, I feel like I’ve constantly…

Jerks of the Week: Jan. 8, 2024 Jerk of the Week: Twitter Idiots Is it just me, or has Twitter – or X, whatever you want to call it – gotten more unbearable lately? All I see these days are fascist boot-lickers talking about how it’s completely democratic that Donald Trump has gotten removed from…

Jerks of the Week: Jan. 1, 2024 Jerk of the Week: Santa’s Inept Helpers My wife and I made a huge mistake recently when we decided to take our two children to see Santa. The act itself wasn’t the blunder, but rather the timing of it. We foolishly went to the mall on a Saturday…

Jerks of the Week: Dec. 25, 2023 Jerk of the Week: Santa’s Inept Helpers My wife and I made a huge mistake recently when we decided to take our two children to see Santa. The act itself wasn’t the blunder, but rather the timing of it. We foolishly went to the mall on a Saturday…

Jerks of the Week: Dec. 18, 2023 Jerk of the Week: The Santa Reservation My wife came up with a plan for us recently. “Let’s go see Santa tomorrow,” she said one evening. I was down for that. This would be my son Conrad’s second time seeing Santa, but he wasn’t even a year old…

Jerks of the Week: Dec. 11, 2023 Jerk of the Week: The Sushi Scam Have you ever seen something that is so obviously a scam to you, but isn’t to most others? I can name some examples off the top of my head, such as property taxes. Everyone pays them without a peep, yet they…

Jerks of the Week: Nov. 27, 2023 Jerk of the Week: My Son’s First Trick-or-Treat This year wasn’t technically the first time my son went trick-or-treating. My wife and I drove to her sister’s house on Halloween a year ago to go trick-or-treating with our two nephews and niece. Our plan was to take our…