LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of commuters struggled to get to work Tuesday by bus, bike, cab and on foot as a subway workers’ strike stretched into a second […]

Recently, Allison has been struggling rather badly with an organization known as Vocational Rehabilitation. Her son is autistic, and while he’s extremely high-functioning, he’s going to require some assistance as […]

Down, damned emotions! Writing this on my phone is not working out at all. To be continued. Maybe.

[Edited to add guard David Boling’s name.] Every now and then, this blog serves as an outlet for one of my incidents of otherwise intractable outrage. Some time ago, I […]

Okay, I’ve just about had it up to here (author indicates a plane which passes through a point somewhere on his spacious forehead) with airlines, their silly neo-caste system of […]

Here, presented as an experiment to determine whether I have in fact forgotten how to blog, are a few random thoughts and observations I’ve been collecting over the past few […]

This news item is so ridiculous that I believe it should be simply passed on without comment. I send my sincerest thanks to Rey Barry for bringing it to my […]

Big Bird the cockatiel came into my life just before my mother passed away.  She’s been an integral part of it ever since, having a personality uncannily like my mother’s. […]

Perhaps my very favorite among the many humorists and comedians whose work I treasure is George Carlin. George’s work has gone through changes over the years, and that’s to be […]

I rarely (read: never) post technical information on this blog. I never meant it to be a fountain of geek information. However, a technical issue so confounded me today that […]

Recently I had a conversation with a close friend on the subject of intelligence. At issue was the importance of that trait in determining how well people interact with each […]

Most of you know that I’m not content to simply call myself an audio geek and leave it at that. Oh, no. Someone of my advanced geekiness needs a specialty, […]

Life has a way of moving very, very quickly. As it does for most people, the dawn of each new day greets me with a fresh set of challenges. The […]

The voice adventure has concluded. The answers below are all correct and, for better or for worse, represent the actual owners of the voices thus recorded. There were some real […]

Just this morning, I was discussing the fact that I have a large number of distant friends. I was discussing it, in fact, with a number of those very distant […]

I mentioned recently that I have a certain admiration for songwriter Rupert Holmes. His music, aside from a few hits, was not wildly popular even in its time, so it […]

Recently, during a conversation, I found myself doing something I almost never do. I read a passage from a web site aloud, over the phone, and did it in the […]

This is a test post to my blog. It is utterly and completely meaningless and will be deleted almost (but not quite) before you can even read it.

Forgive me. I needed a nice, strong headline to capture your attention. It’s true, though. I have a new obsession in my life. Relax–you’re not destined to read another six […]

Mind if I get something off my chest? No? Thanks. You’re such a good listener. Cinemas across the country have recently begun showing the trailer for “United 93”, a new […]