Nowhere Near the Edge

At long last, after 12 contentious years, the IRL and Champ Car have finally agreed to unify their series . The IRL came into existence 12 ...

Although I consider myself a big reader, I have not found time for much more than magazines and online content since I got out of school, wi...

The fine upstate New York city of Buffalo has a national profile that is unusually prominent for a town of less than 300,000 people. Buffa...

Google has an interesting feature called "Street View" that it has been rolling out in selected communities around the country. U...

The next time you stumble over the rug in the dining room, sending a glass of milk to its sudden demise, just take comfort in the fact that ...

If you know someone who demonstrates poor attention to detail and exercises poor judgment, do you put much stock in that person's decisi...

I love the idea of the iPhone, but the original model seemed better in theory or potential than in actual execution. I've played with i...

At long last, after months of after-school rehearsals, the curtain goes up on Kelly's school's production of Oliver Twist this week...

It is not often that I feel that I am so directly affected by Congress that I check news updates all day long to see if a vote has been take...

The internet has been abuzz for quite some time about the question of whether an airplane running on a conveyor belt can take off. There ar...

The Parthenon in Athens has always been considered one of the most amazing achievements in architecture. Not only is the building stunning ...

There is a series of thin paperback history books, Images of America, that has become very popular in the past couple of years. The books, ...

I have now earned the privilege of sitting in my cramped airline seat longer than just about anybody else on any Southwest flight I take for...

I believe I have stumbled upon a reliable indicator of inflation, as tied to consumer spending. I opened my first bank account with Bank of...

It seems that mid-January, at least in California, is the beginning of baseball season. Kelly and Michael have played soccer for four years...

You may have heard that those of us out here on the left coast had a bit of a rain shower last week. As it happened, the deluge that blanke...

Well, the bad guys have been reeled in . One escapee was found six blocks from the jail, resting on a couch. The other guy was found a bi...

Constitutional law is fascinating. Government is intriguing. But politics leaves me cold. I typically approach big election seasons with ...

The blog vacation is over; time to go back to work. I have had the pleasure of spending nearly the last two weeks at home. I enjoyed two Ch...

Following up the last post : the prison guard who received a taunting note from prisoners who escaped by concealing the hole in the wall wi...