JENKINS: Thanks, big box stores, for ruining my Thanksgiving
Why did "Black Friday" need to turn into "Black Thursday."
JENKINS: How to be a guy: kitchen clean-up 101
I know this goes against the grain, since cleaning has traditionally been regarded as women's work. Then again, men have traditionally been responsible for supporting the family financially. Any questions?
JENKINS: What to do if your guy loses on Tuesday
With the 2012 election still too close to call, it's important for you to have a plan, should your candidate not get the nod, preferably involving some combination of finger-pointing, denial, dissembling, self-pity, and dire predictions about the future of our republic.
JENKINS: Charter school debate comes down to turfism versus choice
If there's one point on which liberal teachers' union activists and conservative school administrators agree, it's that the proposed charter school amendment would be bad for Georgia.. Thoughtful voters should find that troubling.. After all, it's often said that a person can be judged by his or her enemies. Might
JENKINS: Don't be ashamed to take a stand against pornography
According to Lawrenceville-based film-maker Jessica Mockett, whose documentary-in-progress -- "Shamed" -- chronicles the impact of pornography on people's lives, age 4 is about the right time to start the conversation with your children.
JENKINS: How to be a guy: basic family meal preparation 101
Here are a few basic rules that will make the mom-less dining experience beneficial to your family and, if not pleasant, then at least tolerable.
JENKINS: Simplifying presidential economics for non-geniuses
When it comes to the economy, if we all want more pie, the answer is not to shift pieces around but to create a bigger pie.
JENKINS: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and the income tax nonsense
To those who maintain that Romney didn't pay his "fair share," I would like to say: Please explain to me what's so fair about someone paying more taxes than he or she legally owes. Would you want to be forced to pay more taxes than you owe? Would you think that's fair?
JENKINS: How to be a guy: public restroom etiquette
Follow these few simple rules and you will have the kind of bathroom visit all men aspire to: satisfying yet uneventful.
JENKINS: Wonder what happened to your life, parents? Watch the video
Parents these days seem to subjugate their own lives to those of their children, so that little remains of the parent as an individual. You look around the ballpark and wonder just when that cute little Pam Jones, whom you used to go out with in high school, turned into "Ryan's Mom."
JENKINS: Good discipline means arbitrary rules and emotional pain
One excellent strategy for maintaining discipline in your home is to make completely arbitrary, totally ridiculous rules. You remember these -- your parents used to make them all the time. And it worked for them, didn't it? That's because nothing says "control" like power exercised for its own sake.
JENKINS: Updating The Devil's Dictionary, political convention edition
In the spirit of Ambrose Bierce, allow me to offer a few timely definitions to help you digest the political conventions.
JENKINS: Another new school year, another lesson in basic Socialism
The first lesson of the new school year is delivered even before classes convene, when Mom and Dad download little Johnny and Susie's supply lists. Call it Socialism 101. If the course had a textbook, it would be Hillary Clinton's "It Takes a Village.". Consider the list for one
JENKINS: Husbands and wives must learn to share the pants
No real family man has control over his own destiny. But it is vital that he and his wife appear to be in control.
JENKINS: Olympic Games are sports for non-sports fans
For the true sports fan, the subjective nature of many Olympic sports just doesn't cut it.
