Nowhere Near the Edge

The week-long pause in posting here was due in large part to the fact that we spent last week visiting an impressively wide array of family ...

. . . if you're a motor racing fan who thinks that the auto racing firmament is missing a critical star without Porsche's factory in...

Finally, the vagabond, orphaned Montreal Expos have found a home. After slogging through Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos' maneuv...

I don't often wade into the political swamp because I don't enjoy it, and on my blog, I'll write about what I enjoy. However, ev...

If you were, say, a very successful lawyer in, say, Fresno, and you had a sense of adventure, how might you change the course of your career...

I've mentioned Dan Neil before. He's the one-time writer for Car and Driver who landed a gig writing about cars for the LA Times, a...

The Masters golf tournament has become one of my favorites, in large part because Kelly was born on Monday the week of the 1997 Masters, whi...

My little baby girl is 8 years old today. She is now well into the years for which I have clear memories of my own childhood. Life is now ...

After almost exactly half a lifetime, I've seen U2 live again. It was a very good show (here is the setlist ), hampered only by the ven...

Baseball, of course! After a one-year layoff following two championship seasons, I am back in the fantasy baseball world. It's not the o...

We are truly living in a blessed age. Not only can Boba Fett-worshipping fanboys find their soulmates at the speed of light on numerous ele...

Astronomers have released what they say is the first photograph of a planet outside our solar system. The planet, circling a sun-like star...

You may have heard that there are a lot of dramatic events occurring in the world these days. Our emotions are tugged all sorts of ways: e...

Check out number 27 ... woo hoo!

A big earthquake has hit Indonesia.

It is said that, given an infinite number of monkeys pounding on an infinite number of typewriters (okay, it was said some time ago) for an ...

The one person no woman in her right mind should want to be: the wife or ex-wife of a Los Angeles celebrity. Philandering Central Valley ...

You recall that witty little post below about the new Mercedes and the remarkable aural similarity between its model name and a certain libi...

Brush up on physics and medieval warfare, all at the same time! Let me know if you get onto the leader board.

Here is the latest installment of one of the internet's more challenging puzzle series. Once you've figured this one out, try a few...