Mrs. Likko and I were watching our neighbors’ house and pets while they were away on a few days’ trip. It’s reciprocal; they looked after our animals while we were at LeagueFest. We all save a lot of money on kennel… Continue Reading
It’s a long story, but Clancy and I are still trying to get out 5-figure tax refund from 2010. They claim to have sent the check, but we never received it. The next step in the process is to fill… Continue Reading
This was a surprisingly difficult question to research. Very few movies seem to fit the criteria for this week’s puzzle; I thought for sure there would be many more. But I found a few. Here is a representative sample of… Continue Reading
In his essays about Fox News and MSNBC, Tod was impressed by Rachel Maddow’s handling of the voting rights issue and how efforts to crack down on voting end up disenfranchising legitimate voters. I was recently reading up on the… Continue Reading
One of the reasons I’m (slowly) working my way through the great and politically important cases in the Supreme Court’s history can be seen in high relief in a New York Times/CBS poll released today: Just 44 percent of Americans… Continue Reading
Erik’s post on pop culture and conservatism reminded me of something I meant to write about but almost forgot. This involves spoilers of the first episode of the new TV show Scandal, a political drama. One of my observations about… Continue Reading
While talking to Pat Cahalan in Las Vegas, he talked about stopping in a town where I used to live and getting completely unacceptable Mexican food. This came as a bit of a surprise to me because I found the… Continue Reading
I was reading an article about Hewlitt-Packard and a sentence jumped out at me. The wording made me think that Lenovo had purchased Dell. My eyes shot wide open and I went googling and discovered that no, this bizarre thing… Continue Reading
A seven hour visit to a new city cannot possibly give you a complete and fully accurate idea of what it would be like to live there. But it can make a good impression. Work took me to Portland, Oregon… Continue Reading
There has been a lot of text spilled involve New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s soda ban in New York City. A lot of the commentary, seems to miss what I consider to be the central points. The central dilemma is,… Continue Reading