No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

Yes, I read about this on Leslie Turek's blog: It was pretty painless - give it a shot. I've been pretty quiet here, partially becau...

Over the last 2 weeks or so, my insomnia has gone from bad to worse, and I'm averaging under 4 hours of sleep a night. Sleeping pills s...

I'm currently visiting the town I grew up in. I moved there when I was 4, and moved away to go to college when I was 18. I haven't ...

Origin point of this: http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2005/05/meme-tag.html Total Number of Books Owned Somewhere around 17,000, probably a...

Even in the early '70s, when I was still something of a Nixon supporter, I couldn't hate Deep Throat. I have way too much respect f...

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...