No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

My system was hacked by the Smart Defragmenter virus sometime during the early evening of 10/29/10. I'm not sure how that happened, but...

I've been very quiet in the blog this year. I was hopelessly exhausted for over the first half of the year, but still managed to keep u...

This is a modification of a recipe from The Joy of Cooking - Applesauce Gingerbread. I like more ginger in my gingerbread. Also, since it d...

Two years ago, I took a documentary course at the University of Pittsburgh. Back in 2005, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the r...

Texas has always had a strong, centralized system for buying textbooks. Unfortunately, the Texans are continuing to dumb down and rewrite h...

This blog is now located at http://nolongerslowblog.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click her...

I was raised to be a Republican. Heck, I even voted, when I was 19, for Gerry Ford. I worked for Republican candidates in the '70s and...

Congratulations to Obama and the Democrats for dragging our country, kicking and screaming in some cases, into the late 20th century healtca...

I'm busy today, so I'll get right to the point: Consenting, taxpaying adults have the right to live with whomever they want withou...

Stop on by; I'll be updating this during the Oscars. 2010 Oscars (comments on movies made in 2009).

I'm not sure when, exactly, was the first time I met Phil Klass (aka William Tenn). I think we met at one or two cons in the '70s or...

A few weeks ago, Jim discovered we could attend five Pittsburgh Symphony concerts for the price of four. Since we didn't get to any PSO...

There was a piece in The New York Times that tried to make the point that 1957 was an exceptionally lucky year in which to be born, based o...

The FTC has decided people should be up front when they are being paid to chat things up on the Web . Frankly, I think that's a good id...

I'd volunteered a few months ago to help out at the G-20, during a time when I was mostly unemployed. I'd hoped to work in the pres...

So the G-20 starts tomorrow and some of the folks in Pittsburgh are already getting hot and bothered. I mean both some of the anti-G20 prot...

...about calling your president "a liar" from the floor the the Congress. Democrats had MANY more reasons to do that during the Bu...

...about refusing to let your child hear the President speak. We are being taken over by the Marching Morons. It's completely disgustin...

Dead People Server was invented at some point in the late summer of 1994 by Richard Holmes. I'm not 100% sure of the date, as I didn...

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