Nowhere Near the Edge

I have undergone a strange transformation this year. The most obvious external manifestation is this: on Sunday afternoons this fall, I can ...

There is nothing funny about a death threat. Nothing, that is, unless it is delivered with flood-tide levels of ineptitude and lunacy. Forme...

With all of the running around we do on Saturdays, with soccer games all over town, birthday parties even more randomly sited, and Home Depo...

The decline of civility in the American culture has been extensively chronicled and bemoaned. Everything from the Beatles to hippie culture ...

The kids' soccer seasons are drawing to a close. Each has one regular-season game remaining; Kelly's team will then go into the divi...

For some reason, when it is 95 degrees in November, you get sunsets like this on our street: Moonrise over the hill ... if only I'd had ...

Americans are notorious for their shaky-to-nonexistent grasp of basic geography (although I have some doubts as to whether a stockbroker fro...

Halloween gave us the seldom-seen pairing of Laura Ingalls and Anakin Skywalker:

This weekend I had another opportunity to smoke the tires and boil the brake fluid of Mazda's latest offerings. As I did last year, I a...

October 20th, you say? Well, here we are at 3:15 pm: I just figured that would brighten your day. Okay, everybody back in the pool!

You may have heard that golfer Arnold Palmer decided to retire from competitive golf last week. The 77 year old legend hasn't been tru...

Well, well. My old English 2B classmate, Professor Monk, has hit the bright lights of the media world. The Professor has an article at New...

In a weird confluence of the political and sports worlds, the airplane that crashed into a Manhattan highrise yesterday, rekindling 9/11 ji...

Do you have a few minutes? Good. How about a couple of hours? If you do, try this flash-based set of puzzles . They are very light on di...

Teleportation is reality ! Well, it is if you happen to be a "macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms"...

Researchers have recently determined that children are far more likely to be roused from sleep in an emergency by the sound of their mother...

There are so many risk factors to take into account when deciding to have a baby; the need to take medication for a chronic condition adds a...

It has been a major peeve of mine over the years that the products we buy, particularly at the grocery store, have become smaller without an...

This is one of those years when we lost our sanity and invited everybody Michael knows, or has met, or has seen from across a street somewhe...

I believe that most people can identify at least one teacher in their educational experience who had a particularly notable impact on their ...