"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
In case you missed it, Banned Books Week is October 4-10, 2026. Book banning is at unprecedented levels in the USA, so it strikes me as odd that nothing about it popped up in my news feed until today. Shame on me for coming to the party a day late. As with every Banned Books […]
I suppose I should weigh in on Cornell. Everyone else has.
If everything was right with the world, we’d be packing for a seven-day road trip. The plan was to leave tomorrow, take our time driving through New Mexico to see friends in southwestern Colorado, then leisurely make our way back to Arizona through Utah and the Navaho Nation. Alas, not everything is right with the […]
What’s interesting about this short video clip is that it shows a bare-naked F-15 taking off, a rare event. You see, a naked fighter is useless … it carries no weapons and can’t perform any of its combat missions. They don’t let you fly ’em naked because they aren’t supposed to fly naked. This Oregon […]
Well, shoot … I’m all for branching out, but I didn’t anticipate this blog post taking this direction when I fired up the iMac this morning.
You would think American sanitation workers in all 50 states, whether employed by cities or private companies like Waste Management, would honor Labor Day.
This is the first of three planned show & tell videos, and it features my five favorite mechanical timepieces.
All respect to Seiko, which will always be my go-to brand, but you’ve gone and priced yourself out of my reach.