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A few months ago, Clancy gave 1-year (or so) notice at work (I may write more on this at some point). We will be leaving next summer. We don’t know what comes next. We will also be dealing with a… Continue Reading →

I feel cruel seeing my dog sleeping, whimpering and shaking while she dreams of something she fears. I want to comfort and love her, to assure her that it’s all okay, her people are here and will protect her, there… Continue Reading →

If Tim Howard didn’t get Man of the Match for his brilliant late-game saves, he was robbed. The U.S. Men’s National Team won in Mexico for the first time in 75 years tonight. Go Team America!* * Truth be told,… Continue Reading →

The Atlantic has a piece about Australia’s new cigarette boxes: As part of the landmark tobacco regulation bill President Obama signed in 2009, Congress required cigarette makers to set aside half the space on each of their packages for health… Continue Reading →

Last week, they picked up the house next door and moved it a block over. The next step is to run a street through it. While they’re at it, they tore up the street behind us to repave it. Also,… Continue Reading →

This is actually the first of a couple posts. I’d rather start with the second, but experience tells me that if I try, we’ll end up talking about this aspect anyway: Birthright citizenship and “anchor babies.” First, a bit of… Continue Reading →

For those of you who have never heard of it, IGA is the Independent Grocers Alliance, a sort of franchising model among grocery stores and supermarkets in contrast to a chain of them. They’re independently owned but also work together.… Continue Reading →

David Bergeron, the founder and president of a company that makes solar powered refrigerators, thinks that subsidies for on-grid solar power are a bad idea: Here is the real problem: Subsidies make solar appear viable today, so where is the… Continue Reading →

I’ve not had a real television in the house for several years. Mrs. Likko banished television when, way back when we were still living in Tennessee, we had a shameful run-in with Iron Chef on a work night. “No, let’s watch the… Continue Reading →

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Democracy. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click here. A few weeks ago, I… Continue Reading →