No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

Back in early March, Jim wrote a very good letter to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on the history of US-France relations. Unfortunately, at ...

The folk(s) over at uggabugga (thanks to Leslie Turek for linking to that one!) found even more unbelievable quotes from my (gulp) senator...

[[When I get on a roll...]] Dear folks, I cannot comprehend a greater oxymoron in this day than "gay" and "Republican." ...

I adapted the letter I wrote to Santorum, and it was published in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/le...

Yes, he's (gulp) my senator. In fact, he grew up about three miles from where I live now, a fact that does not surprise me at all, give...

Ohhhh , the indignity of it all! Just today at work, I complained to co-workers that no one has any good April Fools Day jokes anymore. The...

OK, for the second time in 34 years, I'm missing part of the Oscars on Sunday. Thank goodness for recorders! But, it will be weird to ...

I read the books back in '75, saw the first movie in '84, but didn't see the Sci Fi Channel miniseries remake until just now. Th...

Yes, Boskone happened in Boston for the first time since 1987. There were either one or two fire alarms, but the hotel didn't take them...

I've been to see The Two Towers four times (so far). It's a glorious movie, but in order to see the movie, you have to see way too...

I always remember where I was when I hear really awful news. I was watching TV a January night in the '60s when the news broke in with a...

I've been sick since getting home. The cold I picked up over Christmas seems to have slid into being the flu (aches, exhaustion), so I ...

We had a very happy holiday, enjoyed the east coast snowstorm since it hit after we were at my parents, and managed to get home in the New Y...

I don't post blogs all that often, and just spent about 30 minutes writing about a wonderful new book called When You Ride Alone, You Ri...

Well, I was in Silver Spring, MD during the recent sniper episode and arrived home alive. So did my husband. So did all of our friends. Or...

So what do they have in common? Both have a penchant for wearing military uniforms and growing facial hair. Both are absolute dictators over...

Ahh, for the good old days of the Web. You could stick your E-mail address wherever you wanted to and people would send you E-mail... ; ...

One of my favorite books (well, the first 2/3rds of it, anyway) is the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay . I also liked The Wonder Bo...

Osama bin Laden hasn't been seen publically since last fall, and he wasn't looking too good at the time. Remember, he was only 44 b...

With so much bad news about unlucky girls, I thought I'd share two stories about lucky girls. The first one is 7-year-old Erica Pratt. ...