No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

For the last 44 years or so, I've made predictions about Oscar winners. 2012 was a good year for movies, but there are very few ...

It's that simple - an important part of woman's health care is access to pre-natal care, fertility treatments, birth control and ab...

This is a little extreme even for me, but here's what happened last night: 10:45: Get into bed, turn on House Hunters 10:50: Fall asl...

We have some very nice bushes near our door, as a photo from last spring indicates. Or I should say "had," because this is w...

One small advantage of chronic insomnia is I see sunrise almost every morning. And we have a nice view of sunrise from our deck (actually,...

In 2011, I didn't think we lived very near any gas wells. About a year ago I realized one was being built south of me (I don't te...

I'm disgusted by the goings-on around the gang rape of a drunk 16-year-old in Steubenville, so I went to #occupysteubenville today. I...

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 ...