No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

On Mother's Day, I stumbled over a lovely essay by one of the Newtown Mothers...and it made me want to remember each of the kids. I wo...

I sometimes make surprisingly long posts in other people's blogs. I responded to a posting and some comments in the blog The Skeptica...

On April 29, I was disgusted (though not surprised) to read that a Republican Congressional Representative wanted to do away with using pee...

After months of arguing, and a rare bipartisan proposal between conservative Democrat Joe Manchin (WV) and conservative Republican Pat Too...

And the answer is... every single Republican in the House . So when you want to know why the minimum wage continues to stagnate at a ti...

We must always remember who voted against this bill - especially during the 2014 election. I know my representative, Tim Murphy voted aga...

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...