No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

I probably won't get to walk tomorrow, though I may wind up doing some shoveling, so here's my walking(mostly)/kayaking(a little) ...

Even in the days when I was still religious, I was never evangelical. I generally believed in "live and let live," but, well, r...

I started a White House Petition 14 days ago to tell the IRS to investigate the tax-exempt status of the Westboro Baptist Church. Since th...

Since moving back to Pittsburgh in 1993, I've probably done the drive between Western Pennsylvania and Central Massachusetts 50 times....

A few days after the Newtown Massacre, I decided my anger over the situation needed more than 140 characters, so I wrote a blog post . A ...

Mother Jones published a list of Senators and their opinions on semiautomatic assault weapons ban . My Senators, Bob Casey & Pat T...

For me, the Newtown massacre was the tipping point. It's time to stop pretending that the NRA is good for this country. It's a...

I am horrified by yet another gun-related mass murder in this country. But, President Obama, this is yet another fight you must take on....

You won your gerrymandered district. President Obama won a majority of the national vote. I trust President Obama - I do not trust you in...

I'm a realist - we all die and we ought to have a few clues about how we handle the material we've written/developed online over t...

Last weekend, I was in Philadelphia, co-running Smofcon 30 , a small conference for conference planners (yeah, that does sound a little se...

The Republicans are still pretending that they lost many of the 2012 elections, especially on the federal level, because they were not con...

Watching the returns after the 2012 election was mostly a thrilling experience. I'm so happy that the billions the Republican noise ...

Good pollworkers are the lifeblood of every election. It's a thankless job with long hours. Getting sharp pollworkers is vital, par...

It's interesting how terrified Republicans are of all adults voting. It's as if they've finally realized how irrelevant they...

I've had insomnia, on and off, since I was 5 years old.  Also had issues with depression and, at times, anxiety.  Been on and off of P...

I would like to be surprised by the way some people are trying to redefine the word "creep."  One person's bad behavior shoul...

I do not engage in any conversation in my blog with anonymous posters.  I normally delete such messages without even reading them.  I start...

[[Error correction - when I first posted this essay, I called it "He Said/She Said"  Not long afterwards, I realized that this ti...

I generally agree with Don D'Ammassa's " Ground Rules ," though I'm at the point where I don't read Websites li...