Damien Riley, author, teacher and dad, keeps an eye on popculture, the news, and humor all around us. His blog, Dynamite Lesson Plan, tackles the topic of education with a perspective from someone on the inside - an elementary school teacher.
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What is one food that can make a woman’s sex drive disappear?
Wedding cake.
That joke might be funny if I hadn’t heard it from so many married men that complain about the lack of sexual activity taking place in their marriage.
As much as guys might want to think that any reduction in the quantity of time [...]

You might think that the tears rolling down the faces of the parents at the bus stop this morning were from the sadness of seeing their little children head off to school.
They weren’t.
Those were tears of joy.
Joy that the parents will reclaim their quiet house for at least a few hours each day. Joy [...]

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‘Bigger is better’, we often hear (including diamonds, as my wife and De Beers have made me painfully aware). It’s time to officially put the ‘more megapixels’ obsession to rest.

When digital cameras first arrived, everyone was concerned with megapixels. This large, unruly number became a de facto ‘hot or not’ descriptor of your camera. Think [...]

Once we had covered the basics of a Man Cave, it was time to dig down a little deeper and take a look at some real-life examples of a Man Cave. The first Man Cave Monday featured the Man Cave of Chris Gray, which features a nice recording studio where Chris can record music [...]