No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

We're up in Boston, attending a planning meeting for Noreascon IV. During the Exhibits meeting, we came up with another rough draft on H...

I suppose there had to be one in the Army somewhere... According to ABC News: "There's definitely a cover-up," the witness...

(Yes, the title refers to two completely different topics...) I'm happy that Massachusetts will be the first state in the union to allow...

Given Bush/Cheney's hypocrisy...errhh "loyalty" (towards their cronies, not towards the Constitution or the American public), ...

Tired of all the political wrangling in the US this year? Vote for the team that's "Brave. Reliable. Resourceful. Well-trave...

[[This essay appeared in a slightly different form as a Letter to the Editor in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on 5/9/2004]] Harry Truman woul...

Thursday morning, I left for Massachusetts. I've done that drive solo a number of times. It takes about 10 hours, and when the weather...

On assorted boards in us.imdb.com, some of the anti-choice folks have decided to decry any actor or actress who dares to be publicly pro-cho...

I was out of town over the weekend, and came home to find out that my Uncle Winslow had died. It was not completely unexpected - he'd h...

While I have mixed feelings about our government's promotion and conduct of the war in Iraq, I think most of us who'd rather not see...

This week, I read two contemporary books that were curiously related: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Against All Enemies by Richa...

September 11 was over two and a half years ago. The main architectural symbol of our country's liberty, the Statue of Liberty, remains ...

During the '80s, a word many of us used proudly in the '70s practically became practically a swear in the mouths of right-wing extre...

The point of my countdown this week has been to announce that today is my last day at Pitt. I'm starting a new job on Monday with PennF...

I heard Richard Clarke say something yesterday that people from our government never say:      We failed you...I failed you... Politicians a...

And, as of today, Dead People Server has had its 3,000,000th visitor in just over five years. Not bad for a site without any advertising a...

I've read many reviews of The Passion of the Christ . I decided I just couldn't see it due to its violence and historical revisionis...

Oh well... The Lord of the Rings movies made me a huge fan of Viggo Mortensen. I was never much of a fan of his until late in the movie Fel...

Is Ralph Nader getting paid off by the Republicans to run? [[3/29/2004 - it turns out the answer was sort of , so I guess my fantasy wasn...