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The Wife today asked me about goals. She wondered why we hadn’t spent a lot of time talking about what our goals were and how to achieve them. It seems to me, though, that we spend quite a bit of… Continue Reading →

Last night, The Wife went to our friend’s baby shower. I hung out with her husband at their house, and he and I drank beer and played on his Xbox 360. When I was a kid, the Atari and the… Continue Reading →

The joint U.S.-French proposal to the U.N. Security Council regarding the war in Lebanon is quite clever, in its own way. A buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon would be created along Lebanon’s southern border, of about 400 square miles… Continue Reading →

The professional football season starts in a month. The first game of the season is in four weeks, when Miami goes to Pittsburgh. Green Bay opens at home against the Chicago Bears on September 10, one month from today. So… Continue Reading →

To begin an appeal in pretty much any case pending in pretty much any court, a doucment called a “notice of appeal” needs to be filed. The document is very short, usually a one-pager. Typically, the language and format are… Continue Reading →

The picture to the right is from Getty Images and France Presse, taken from today’s Gray Lady, and it shows a Hezbollah-fired Katyusha rocket taking off on its way to some target in Israel. The rocket was fired from the… Continue Reading →

The Ken Jennings super-tough trivia question this week goes something like this: Charles Lindbergh, Mel Brooks, Ronald Reagan, Jerry Stiller, Shakespeare. Based on what these five people have in common, what other famous historical figure, far and away more than… Continue Reading →

I came across an interesting bit of history yesterday. In the mid-eighteenth century, Princess Royal Maria Theresa Hapsburg was the only woman to ever rule her family’s imperial domains. She doesn’t get as much press in the U.S. as other… Continue Reading →

One of the good things about this blogging phenomenon is that if you play “follow the links” and read a bit, you can come across some things that are quite thought provoking and would never have occurred to you (if… Continue Reading →