Nowhere Near the Edge

If you ever think that driving a few miles to go to the big shopping mall is just too far , get over yourself and ponder this:

As the marine layer has rolled in, the last couple of days, thankfully, have offered us a break from three weeks of this:

Ladies and gentlemen, a big blogsphere welcome to friend and former roommate Chris, who has finally joined the ranks of the self-published b...

You may have heard that the winner of this year's Tour de France, American Floyd Landis, has failed a drug test designed to catch cycli...

I should have been documenting this all along. The sporting press, which is mostly composed of men reporting predominantly about men, has n...

It's been just a bit warm. 111 degrees warm. So, of course, today was the day I played golf. It's not very often that my score is ...

Want to know how popular your name has been, decade by decade? This is the site for you. You could spend a lot of time goofing around wit...

June gloom has finally gone away, replaced with scorching temperatures. Last week, at Kelly's request, we took advantage of the rare Ju...

Even as I sit here, our lovely little iMac is dutifully ingesting byte after megabyte of videotape. We finally picked up a device that will...

We have turned the city's block party into a family tradition. California Pizza Kitchen at 4:30, stolling past old hot-rods and muscle ...

Poland has prevailed upon the United Nations to rename the notorious concentration camp located at Auschwitz. It seems that someone in Pol...

You can all resume your normal lives now; the World Cup has come to an end. In a match brimming with countless potential jokes about each s...

It's down to the final four now: host Germany, Portugal, Italy and France, which dispatched legendary Brazil today. I had been pulling...

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...