Nowhere Near the Edge

You have to enjoy the joie de vivre exhibited by the ad agencies in these spots:

The Space Shuttle is supposed to come home today, but nobody knows where. As I type this, the flight director just informed the crew that ra...

I have resisted posting or linking to YouTube clips, partly because I can't vouch for all of the garbage that may be on the YouTube site...

As I hinted a while ago, I had an opportunity to do another driving event this fall. This time, it was put on by Road & Track and Car an...

Let's see: guy owns a snake. A 13-foot boa constrictor, whose sole function in life is to encircle and squeeze other living things until...

Mmm, this Apple Kool-Aid sure is tasty !

Here in the West, we have pioneered all sorts of marvelous medical techniques and equipment that have enabled doctors to perform feats of he...

It seems that Tiger Woods, who almost single-handedly turned Nike's golf division from nothing into a major player, has renewed his endo...

The worst fears of friends and family have been confirmed. The body of James Kim, the man who became lost in the Oregon backwoods with his f...

Leaving behind the snowy vales of Oregon, we ended our first day of return travel in San Francisco at Cheryl's sister's new house. T...

Despite driving 2000 miles within a week (1800 of it in the course of four days), our family trip to Oregon was a lot of fun, and provided a...

If you need a little smile inducer today, enjoy this and this .

Okay, you may have heard of a little football game that was played here in the greater Los Angeles area this weekend. There is always a stou...

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...