No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

I have a bunch of started-not-finished projects at my Web site. Notably, I've been taking lots of digital photos over the last two year...

Between lots of travel and the election, I didn't really go to the movies very much this fall. I think the last movie I saw in a theate...

Here's how I answered the Democratic post-election survey 1. How did you participate in this election? I worked hard for John Ker...

There was a lot of doom and gloom yesterday on many of the blogs I read regularly. While I am more pessimistic about the short-term future ...

I had a bad (and temporary) case of irrational exuberance yesterday afternoon. Nothing like having the rest of the vote come in to really t...

I won't be blogging for a bit, as I'm going to a party. Earlier today, I posted about possible problems in Allegheny County. The...

I don't like to use the "l" word (landslide) but man oh man... What prompts this is watching the voting in Western Pennsyl...

As I've already voted, I want to write a bit about what was working right this morning. My earlier post was a reaction to County Execut...

NBC has reported that people in Allegheny County have reported more problems voter registration problems than almost anyplace else in the co...

I am a huge fan of Viggo's, and a moderate fan of Michael's. I thought about seeing Michael when he was on tour in Pittsburgh a few...

[[I wrote this in the fall of 2001, for obvious reasons, and want to republish it here because I think it's a useful essay to consider j...

On 10/28/2004, KSTP broadcast video that proved the explosives were at Al-Qaqaa and still under IAEA seal in early April 2003. Further, Ame...

I'm pretty cynical about sports, especially about the Red Sox. I remember well the debacles of '67, '75, '78 and especially ...

There's only so many times you can hit "Mute" when yet another lie-filled Bush ad shows up. Of course I'm still going to ...

All things considered, I've done a lot of traveling this month and have been to four different states in different parts of the country:...

I only have a few hundred megabytes of space on the Web, so I can't list them all. However, I have been tracking some of them on one of ...

I'm at the point where I tune out of commercials and I'm listening to classical music at work rather than NPR. However, despite my e...

Since keeping its base happy was more important than actually collecting information on terrorists, the Bush administration discharged as ma...

After renaming my blog a few weeks back, I haven't posted in nearly a month. I was somewhat overwhelmed by getting ready for Noreascon ...

Oh, what a deal I have for you. Jeanne Clark from Women Leaders Online has been acquiring the following bumper sticker: If you are attendin...