No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

Did you ever imagine there would come a time when the executive branch of our government would say things like this about Amnesty Internatio...

I was reading Leslie Turek's blog where she quoted from Debra Pickett's column in the Chicago Sun-Times . Pickett wrote about man...

Three cheers for the return of moderation to the Senate (and maybe even the House). It would be nice to not loose our country to the loony ...

I'm not sure where to start/where to go with this discussion, but I'm puzzled. I live in Western Pennsylvania. We're all in rea...

We went to the 9am showing out at the Waterfront. The theater was probably about 1/4 full (but the 3, 5, and 7 pm showings were all listed ...

Well, we all know how things went in November? Think things are any better? Apparently not. I had no problem voting in November. I went to...

We've been getting in the spirit of the upcoming Star Wars finale by watching the movies. We watched Phantom Menace on Friday and Attac...

Well, first the bad news - I didn't get hired for a full time job, but at least they wrote to me to tell me so (unlike another place whe...

We've discovered another two restaurants considerate of non-smokers in the Pittsburgh area: Red Robin (out at the Waterfront, just down...

Two signs, one a little old but one from today, that spring is really here: I'm not sure what the salmon-colored flowers are, but we tho...

I hit 45,000 words today. Well over 1/2 way through it. I've been envisioning this story for a while, since at least late 2000. The fi...

I appeal to you to please not vote for Senator Santorum's S. 786 - National Weather Services Duties Act of 2005. As written, it could p...

45% Yankee 35% General American English 15% Upper Midwestern 5% Dixie 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? I'm not ...

Do you think you have a right to get free weather information from the government's weather service? Rick doesn't think so - he thi...

I hit 37,000 words this afternoon, which I suspect is somewhere close to being half way through. If I continue at my current pace, I should...

I spent last week working on Pittsburgh 2005: Conference on Health and Environment . It was a fascinating conference. As I wound up helpi...

I saw the Unitarian Jihad comments from Jon Carroll all over the place, both in political and SF-related blogs over the last few days. So I...

Russell wrote the splendid The Sparrow and Children of God in the late '90s, and went on to win the Campbell Award for best new write...

So up until about three weeks ago, I had about 17,000 words of a novel on my PC, one I started thinking of about four years ago. From time ...

I've been a huge fan of Michael Chabon since I read The Mysteries of Pittsburgh back in the '80s. He went on to write The Wonder B...