You know how younger siblings are always complaining how they live in the shadow of their smarter, prettier, more popular older sibling?  Didn’t work that way in our family.

I was two years ahead of Bruce in school, and while I was a total and complete nerd, my nerdiness was focused on math and languages.  I didn’t really care about the rest, and had an attitude problem big enough to slack off where I didn’t care.  I especially hated gym,* but was also a very indifferent student in various science and social studies classes.  Bruce, on the other hand, excelled in all of his classes and was popular and athletic to boot.  Some of my most exciting high school memories are of hanging out at home on a Friday as Bruce headed out for an evening filled with the wholesome and educational things a group of 15-year-old boys did in 1977.

Now we’re all grown up, living in different cities, working in different professions, and holding diametrically opposed political views, so this whole being-outshone-by-your-younger-sibling thing should be far in our past, right.  Not hardly!  Put aside the fact that he ended up with both a Ph.D** and an MBA.  Put aside the fact that he had actually tried a case in court*** before I had emerged from junior associate document review hell.  He’s BLOGGING now!  And dammit he’s hilarious!

So if you get tired of the liberal claptrap and dog photos on this blog, head on over to Bruce’s Blog (til I come up with a catchier name).

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*  It was bad enough during things like basketball, where being the youngest, smallest, scrawniest kid in the grade was sort of a disadvantage, but I simply hated swimming.  Loathed it.  This may have been due to the fact that the class always ended up standing in some part of the pool where the water was over my head.  But I’ve always hated swimming, and hate it to this day.  My view is:  the evolution from gills to lungs was a good one, and we should enjoy ourselves up here on dry land.

** Hey, I’m a doctor too!  A JURIS doctor!!

** Small claims court vs. the limo driver from his wedding.  Complete with exhibits showing the fact that the driver’s route included a non-existent road.  He won.