Ed Spivey Jr. When wedding bells ring, don't forget the jello. JUNE IS A special month, particularly for ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Who said it was a good idea to mimic the human brain? MICROSOFT WORD is one of those computer p ...

Ed Spivey Jr. I felt the same way. When I was 9. THE DAY BEFORE President Obama's second inauguration (c ...

Ed Spivey Jr. You should expect some side effects. AS WE MOVE along in 2013, more initiatives will be coming ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Let the healing begin (maybe next week). SO HOW WAS your fall off the fiscal cliff? Did you dro ...

Ed Spivey Jr. What's next, frogs and locusts? I DON'T WANT to keep harping about this climate chang ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Get used to the idea of a married Jesus. BELATED CONGRATULATIONS to Jesus Christ after recent r ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Is it global warming or an alien invasion? THE SKIES LOOK different to me these days. The soft ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Please Vatican, censor me. I deserve it. AS AN AUTHOR whose book sales have, shall we say, peak ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Remind me again what lawyers do. I forget. THE TAR SANDS in Alberta, Canada, have been in the n ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Like Jesus, I'm saving a lot of money on gas. THE FIRST BUG was a surprise, glancing off m ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Even al Qaeda can use rebranding. EVERYONE CAN USE a fresh start from time to time. When Enco a ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Becoming a dictator is a great way to get out of homework. BELATED CONGRATULATIONS to North Kor ...

Ed Spivey Jr. In fact, my knowledge of Brazil is limited to that tall Jesus statue overlooking a city, and the fact people can be naked o ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Who knew hideous sea creatures had their own club? AS A GENERAL rule, it’s a bad idea to skip c ...

Ed Spivey Jr. My new approach this year is not to promise better behavior or new experiences, but to simply look back at the mistakes of ...

Ed Spivey Jr. At first, I thought I had the flu because I didn't get a flu shot this year and naturally had to be punished by the me ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Tarantulas are not insects. They're arachnids. Really big ones. After four trips to Hondur ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Fortunately, 40 is the new 34, or in my case, 38. With THIS ISSUE we turn 40, as our cover note ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Starting in 2013, every pack of cigarettes sold in the U.S. will include graphic images portraying the physical effects of ...

Ed Spivey Jr. So now we know why over the past few years our Internet service would sometimes slow to a crawl: Osama bin Laden was tying u ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Eventually, a Rapture prediction will come true, right? Whew! That was close. Looks like May ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Speaking of my granddaughter, I was changing her diaper the other day, and in the contents I'm pretty sure I saw ... ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Our nation expects bold and innovative leadership. (Kidding.) At the media's insistence, we ...

Ed Spivey Jr. As the United States prepares for its inevitable takeover by special interests, Sojourners recently sat down with the godfa ...

Ed Spivey Jr. It's official: WikiLeaks says she's the cutest. As the nation's leaders have warn ...

Ed Spivey Jr. As one would predict, many humor writers are taking cheap shots at the new pat-down rules at airports. But at Sojourners we& ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Not to brag, but my new toilet was rated Best Flush for 2010. Not to brag, but my new toilet was ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Having successfully survived a mid-life crisis -- mainly by living past mid-life -- I felt it was finally time to sell my H ...

Ed Spivey Jr. After more than 200 years of constitutional democracy, it may be time to try something completely different. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Politicians can't help it when they lie. It has come to our attention that Americans are co ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Humans are like ants, only less productive. As the 2010 mid-term election nears, Americans are p ...

Ed Spivey Jr. I never look forward to my trips to Dallas, a red-state city short on political tolerance but long on congenial in-laws, who ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Frank Luntz sees things differently than the rest of us. Frank Luntz sees things differently tha ...

Ed Spivey Jr. As summer approaches, I look forward to the day, sometime in late July, when all the snow will finally be gone from Washingt ...

Ed Spivey Jr. 'Opening the floodgates' for Happy Meals The recent Supreme Court decision expanding c ...

Ed Spivey Jr. It was a very special day, and I chose my necktie accordingly, a selection made easier by the fact that I only have two. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. I’ve been surfing the Internet, looking for ways to escape the coming apocalypse that ancient Mayans, using science availabl ...

Ed Spivey Jr. The new year is dawning brightly—usually too brightly, depending on how late you stayed up on New Year’s Eve—and it is fille ...

Ed Spivey Jr. This being December, many of you are starting to go through closets finding raiment suitable for the children to wear in the ...

Ed Spivey Jr. While purchasing a slingshot recently, I began to wonder what message this might be sending to my credit card company, a bus ...

Ed Spivey Jr. This month’s cover story is about sex, and there is nothing I can add to the topic that would not violate the rules of my pa ...

Ed Spivey Jr. With all the mixed signals we’ve been getting these days about the use of torture, it’s hard to know what to believe. ...

Ed Spivey Jr. This is my first column in our bold new magazine design, which was created to bring state-of-the-art publishing innovations ...

Ed Spivey Jr. As I sit at my desk thinking up innovative ideas for the coming decade—MacArthur Mediocrity Grants, AIG offices relocating t ...

Ed Spivey Jr. I hold in my hand a printout of the e-mail I just received from Barack Obama. I hold in my hand ...

Ed Spivey Jr. With the nation facing fiscal uncertainty (actually, complete and absolute certainty—just like the in­evi­table wedgie I got ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Being the trusting sort, I clicked on the link. Life is different now. It started innocently eno ...

Ed Spivey Jr. The International Space Station is a cramped scientific laboratory orbiting in an environment where temperatures on a good d ...

Ed Spivey Jr. Made you look. Anyway, the world economy continues to spin downward despite my previous column on the subject, which was int ...