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Politicians at the state and local level in Pennsylvania believe the residents should roll over and play dead when companies push for waste ...

I left NetRoots Nation Thursday (even missing Bill Clinton's speech, which I would have loved to have heard) completely exhausted. Afte...

After spending some time helping run my Dad's 80th birthday, vacationing in Canada, then helping run the World Science Fiction Conventio...

My Web domain, dpsinfo.com, has been around for years. While the site that gets the most traffic is Dead People Server, I have about a doze...

At first, I thought the announcement of his death was another hoax. I first saw it on Wikipedia's death page, where hoax deaths can stil...

The local organization leading the organization for the G-20 in Pittsburgh this September is a group called the Allegheny Conference. They...

One of the people currently reviving the "no gay marriage" fight is John Eichelberger, R (naturally) of Blair county. Recently, h...

We usually go over to Bocktown Beer and Grill for dinner and the Wednesday beer tasting. After that, the plan was to go out to Friendship ...

This is a really fast survey on your current news knowledge. I scored 12 out of 12, which put me in the 94th percentile. When you're und...

A few years ago, I realized I was already taking a variety of supplements and some prescription drugs. I started tracking what I was taking...

We have all kinds of dangerous Americans in prison. And yet... Republicans have brainwashed people (including, sadly, a bunch of Democrats) ...

The Pittsburgh housing market had a massive crash in the late '70s and early '80s when manufacturing jobs went abroad. I remember c...

The Bach Choir of Pittsburgh has been performing a challenging selection of pieces over the last year. Each piece is tied to the overall th...

At the March meeting, Gary came up with a good idea - visiting The Vader Project exhibit at the Andy Warhol Museum. A bunch of us said we t...

My annual thoughts on the Oscars . I'll probably be Facebooking/Twittering during the Oscars.

Shawn Otto, one of the organizers of Science Debate 2008, just send around some depressing E-mail - there's a move to remove money for t...

While I am not an economist, it's clear that we're in a severe recession. We're in this recession for many reasons. Economi...

Why I Went to Washington In the 1960s, I grew up in a lily-white, mostly middle class small town in New England. About the only black peo...

It's possible I might see a better movie in the next two weeks, but I doubt it. When history is known (like, say, with the upcoming WWII...

The Obama change.gov site has invited Americans to submit their vision for changing the country. Here's what I sent them: The Obama ca...