It doesn’t, of course. I’m betting the title got your attention, though, just as a similar headline did when it appeared today on news aggregator fark.com. The story itself, posted […]

A much more interesting blog than this one is under construction. It’s long, based on an idea from MMM, and it’s taking a lot of time to write. I promise […]

Breaking with tradition, I will deny you the choice of which you shall hear first, and proceed with the good news. Allison now has a blog!  She had asked me […]

The Sydney Sun-Herald newspaper has published a list of what it considers the “Top 100 Books of All Time.” There is no indication of how this list was arrived at, […]

I have been thinking a lot lately about the stuff of life.  No, not single-malt Scotch, but DNA. I just finished re-reading a very interesting Robin Cook novel called “Mutation,” […]

This blog has taken what I have come to consider an unwise turn in the last few months.  Outrage at several idiots and the people who provide support for those […]

I’ve been distracted by other issues recently, and I realized today that I’d failed to post an update on the Adam Race story recently.  I apologize for this.  I’m much […]

There have been some interesting updates of late in the case of Adam Race, the autistic boy who was banned from the Bertha, Minnesota “Church of St. Joseph” by its […]

There are a lot of things I will probably never understand about Minnesota. Lutefisk would be one example. I’ve spent only about three days in the state of Minnesota in […]

Joyce McKibben, Mayor City of Lithonia, GA Dear Ms. McKibben: Let me offer my congratulations. By overstepping your authority under the city’s charter and summarily firing your police chief, you […]

Most Americans remember the little monkey we read about in children’s books. Curious George is probably as much of a national phenomenon as Charlie Brown, at least among those of […]

I am in the control room of a recording studio in Florida, a cool oasis of air-conditioned comfort in a land otherwise enveloped in muggy unpleasantness. My hands rest on […]

Exhibit A: This morning, an eight-year-old second-grader was arrested, put in handcuffs, and taken to jail for punching his teacher. The story is here. The headline for it, on news […]

I haven’t written anything here in a while.  I’ve had some mixed feelings about the blog, but I decided to leave it up, if for nothing but historical interest.  However, […]

It was announced today that self-caricaturing idiot Cynthia McKinney will run for President of the United States. Some of you may have followed her semi-illiterate ramblings, her adventures allegedly assaulting […]

If you think the blog looks very different now, it’s not your imagination. It was brought to my attention last night that Internet Explorer 7 didn’t like my previous, heavily-modified […]

It is a day that we remember, and a day that we should remember. President Franklin Roosevelt pronounced this day “a date which will live in infamy.” On this day […]

It’s been some time since this blogger found himself tagged; that is to say, tasked with a blog entry whose topic is preordained by the poor unfortunate who was tagged […]

I have just been informed, much to my great relief and surprise, that I am not the World’s Worst Person. Certainly I ran a good race, but it seems that […]

We’ve known, I guess, since April that former CNN news anchor Paula Zahn and her husband of 20 years, real estate mogul Richard Cohen, were separating. We’ve also known that […]