While you may have noticed that the blog was offline for a while, it does not mean I’ve retired.  Life got quite busy for a few months and — as such things occasionally go — I was hit with a bit of inspiration and motivation to retool the original skepdad blog. Though I’m not straying completely from the blog format, but in an attempt to create something a little less scattered, a little more useful, and a whole ton more interesting for myself to publish, skepdad is going to …

Until I actually release the new format later this month, read through some of the information about the category/topics, future content, themes, and concepts to find out what I’ve got planned. The trends and the ideas will, of course, stay very much in line with what you’ve been reading on The Skepdad Blog for the last couple years, but the look, feel, and tone will be going in for a major overhaul. And I hope you find it both enjoyable and useful. But for now here is a taste of what’s to come…

Wonk for stats that I am, I had to share that the spam filter here just caught it’s eleven-thousandth spam comment. Now, if only we could mobilize that kind of bot-net for good…

I’m an average guy. And I happen to be a dad.

A skepdad’s role is not to fill the young mind with answers, but to make it ready to ask the right questions.

I’ve decided to pick some themes and set up something of a “daily column” for the blog.

I’ve made no bones about the fact that I’ve toed the metaphorical line of my purpose here.

Please, introduce yourself and give me a some feedback on some of the suggestions below.

This is a fictitious example and quasi-supernatural thought experiment: skep/dad’s all-natural, one-size-fits-all, time traveling baseball cap, also known as The Chrono-Hat.

My explorations of logical fallacies is meant as a light-hearted approach to discussing the nuances of common mistakes in the critical thought process.