How shall I describe yesterday? I like to keep this blog family friendly so I’m sure that most readers will understand my meaning when I just call it a “Rolling and Screaming Charlie-Foxtrot”. The details of this adventure is something that my wife will no doubt do a much better job of writing about than I can. What I want to focus on here is the cherry on top of that “wonderful” day.

I don’t quite know entirely why, all those things my mother told me not to do I suppose, I still find myself surprised at the way some people choose to treat their hosts. It shouldn’t be a surprise that this growing level of rudeness extends to the online world.

I was watching some of the Olympic coverage tonight and caught the part where they were talking about the age requirements for competitors was that they had to be 16 years old for the calendar year of the Olympics. The question was raised because of some of the Chinese “womens” gymnastics team that looked [...]

There’s quite a lot in a name. It’s your identity, it’s your family history and ancestry. It’s something that’s uniquely “you”, even if it’s incredibly common like “John Smith”.

With the Olympics being in China this time around there’s more attention finally being given to China and some of the ways they’re doing things are getting a little more press than usual. It’s long overdue and still not enough.

I can’t help but wonder just exactly what some of these parents were thinking when they decided to saddle a kid with a name like “Number 16 Bus Shelter”.

Sometimes I wonder if the people putting headlines on a site bother to check with each other before they do something. Judging from a couple of headlines I saw today on Iwon’s news page in the technology section (as of Jul 23, 1:06 pm (ET) anyway.):
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When I heard about Phil Gramm’s comments this morning I had the same reaction that I’m sure many other Americans caught in the middle between need and greed did.

Ok, this commercial has been on enough times that I’m sure a lot of people have had a chance or six to look at these ridiculous looking things But I am not a hamster I can not keep quiet about this any more.

Y’know, I’ve heard for years about how it’s supposed to be safer to fly than do drive and maybe that was true twenty or thirty years ago, but stories like this recent one in which Obama’s plane had to make an unscheduled landing in St. Louis because of a “maintenance issue” that came up on [...]