Nowhere Near the Edge

When you are approaching an intersection in which another car is waiting to turn left across traffic and you intend to push through a yellow...

At least for a little while. A Category V typhoon is scheduled to sweep over the remote Pacific island tomorrow, and is expected to submerg...

Michael starts in AYSO's youngest division this year. The teams have five boys each, and play short 3-on-3 games that are more open pla...

I make no apologies for the fact that the sentences to follow contain roughly 89% more subjectivity than federal regulations allow for a cer...

The tragic crash of a commuter jet at a small regional airport in Kentucky yields some curious questions about how such a horrible event co...

A plumber sat next to a lawyer on a long flight from L.A. to New York. The lawyer leans over to him and asks if he would like to play a fun ...

This ought to give all Americans, and particularly those who voluntarily strap themselves onto gigantic rockets, a warm sense of comfort. N...

Tonight's the night . The annual Perseid meteor shower will take place over the next couple of days. Unfortunately, the glare of the n...

After years of thinking about it, I finally took the plunge today: Golfing legend Bobby Jones said of the young, dominating Jack Nicklaus, ...

Notwithstanding all that fascinating stuff I wrote about hormone ratios, alcohol and legal painkillers, it appears that Floyd Landis may ac...

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 ...