Once again, we have had very few ghoulies or ghosties or Sith Lords or Power Rangers or princesses or much of any visitors at all. It’s 8:00pm and we have had one neighbor bring over her son, a 6 or 7-year-old ninja. We moved into this house in 1970 when my sister was ten. There …
We had two different doctor’s appointments today at two different locations, although both were at Straub Hospital offices. Each of them had signs posted at the sign-in desks asking patients to inform the nurse or receptionist whether they had traveled outside the US in the past 30 days. Better safe than sorry, I suppose, but …
Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants, who won their third World Series in five years tonight, 3-2 over the Kansas City Royals. Somehow I have to be civil when I meet fans of the team. This will be difficult for a Dodgers fan, but it must be done. I am a gentleman, not an oaf. …
There’s no more dramatic phrase in sports, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve said so before and I’ll say it again: Game Seven is evocative of heroics on the field in do-or-die circumstances: Bill Mazeroski and Joe Carter’s home runs, Sid Bream’s slide, Carlos Beltran’s strikeout, Luis Gonzalez’s dribbler…so many instances of melodrama. The Royals …
Lava crosses Cemetery Road in the Puna district of the Big Island of Hawai’i. Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL Story here.
I just got the newest entry into the Honorverse at the library. David Weber and Tim Zahn have written a story of the early days of the Royal Manticore Navy, some 375 years before Honor and her contemporaries were born. The Navy is at risk of being broken up by politicians who begrudge spending money …
Are you really preparing to put a nitwit like Jodi Ernst in the United States Senate to represent you? The woman who has said she’d use a gun to protect herself from the very government she hopes to be elected to? “I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right …
Votes, that is. From the Bergen Record: [Governor Chris] Christie stressed the need to keep Republicans in charge of states — and overseeing state-level voting regulations — ahead of the next presidential election. Christie made his push at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event in Washington, D.C., where he ran down a list of states …
Yesterday (or earlier today, depending on your time zone), Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to five years for “culpable homicide” in the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. That’s a term we in America might translate as manslaughter or negligent homicide. I don’t know if that’s the right verdict or not, but I’m very glad the …