Obama gave his speech at 3:00PM my time, about an hour ago. I have yet to see any mobs of brown people coming to ethnically cleanse me, Mom, or Abby. The Republican party has offered and a whole lot of people have elected a bunch of raving lunatics. Kris Kobach happens to be the guy …
I remember reading Alfred Noyes’s The Highwayman when I was in junior high or high school. I didn’t know what a murder ballad was back then, and it doesn’t quite qualify as one. It’s certainly a romance, albeit one with an unhappy ending. Bess’s solution was a shock to me. I remember that from my …
The Republicans got the support of a dozen or so Democrats from red states (except Virginia’s Warner), but they fell one vote short of the number needed to pass legislation authorizing the construction of the Keystone Pipeline from Alberta, Canada south through Nebraska and other Plains states to Houston, Tx. Good. It’s a short-term victory …
Governor Jay Nixon, seemingly a timorous man who’s willing to let law enforcement tell him how to govern his state,
Mark Evanier is a comic book and TV writer. He writes a blog called News From ME. Ordinarily his blog is weighted toward the entertainment industry, since he’s been around it since the 1970s, but occasionally he expresses a political opinion such as the one below: Mitch McConnell keeps complaining Obama won't "come to the …
The U of Hawai’i football team won its third game of the season this afternoon in San Jose. The victory broke a 17-game road losing streak. It was also its first shutout in 10 years. Good for the kids. Maybe the coach can breathe a little more easily as well. He’s Norm Chow, a longtime …
That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with one of lander Philae’s feet at the lower center. Because it bounced twice after its initial landing, Philae is not in the middle of a nice flat surface, but rather up against a cliff which is shading its solar panels. ESA has managed to rotate it 35 degrees in hopes that …
Way back when I got a stainless steel hot tray for Christmas. I tried my hardest to keep it clean, but it got stained pretty badly from all the bottoms of thousands of pans and Pyrex microwave dishes and platters and stuff that have rested on it. I tried Comet, I tried liquid soaps, I …
From Events Abby occasionally hangs out in plain sight rather than among the ferns under the paperbark tree.
I know this is a serious day and date. You can find many solemn remembrances of Armistice Day all over the web. One of the most spectacular is the sea of poppies placed in the grassy moat which surrounds the Tower of London. My purpose here today is to show you what a veteran looked …