Nowhere Near the Edge

I've been reading Stephen Ambrose's biography of Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis & Clark expedition), "Undaunted Courage....

If that title looks like it was produced by a random word generator, bear with me. It simply means that I have just secured tickets to see ...

Congratulations are in order to Oregon State University, which became one of the more unlikely NCAA champions in recent memory by winning th...

My gift to you, if you were looking for a way to lose some time you will never get back.

Here's the site of the year so far, for those of us for whom Rubik's Cubes, Family Ties and Wham! represented an important cultural ...

It's 9:30 am on Saturday, and the TV schedule is just killing me. Czech Republic versus Ghana on ABC in a game that has huge ramificati...

If you haven't tuned into the World Cup yet, you really should give it a try. Yes, it's soccer. Yes, you're not used to watchi...

Have we settled on what to call this decade yet? "Aughts" is impossibly old-fashioned, yet I haven't heard an alternative use...

Gentlemen: I am much obliged to your fanatical dedication to endangering my life whenever I visit your fair city in your singleminded determ...

Do you like suspense movies? Okay. Do you like movies about amoral people? If so, you might find “Match Point” to your liking. Woody All...

I am a proud early adopter of many new advances in technology, and particularly the internet. Used BBS services on a terminal at home (2400...

I'm not a huge gamer. I have a Playstation 2, but it has spent most of its life serving as a second DVD player. I enjoy high quality d...

A little professional update: I won a case this week. Well, that's "I" in the sense that I did most of the work within the f...

We, in our post-modern, sophisticated society, scoff with gentle scorn at antiquated laws that remain on the books in various jurisdictions ...

As we in SoCal lie gasping under the deluge of almost half an inch of rain (!), I feel a need to apologize to my sun-loving Southland brethr...

A funny for Friday: A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a sheriff's deputy. He thinks that he is smarter than the deputy b...

Now this is an amusement park for which I would gladly buy a season pass and even pay extra for the silly 64-oz. soda container. Not only...

Ever wonder why air traffic controllers suffer from hypertension and high blood pressure ? You probably would, too, if you had to manage do...

On our recent vacation, we had to rent a car to get ourselves around Florida. Oh, the adventures we had (the subject of a forthcoming post)....

Apple Computer has successfully defended itself in a British court against Apple Corps, the Beatles' music label. The trial judge found...