The first great debate

by | Sep 30, 2004 | News & Commentary

Bush v. Kerry is one hell of a spanking. For Sen. John Kerry to win this evening’s debate he needed to do one thing: appear presidential. Kerry did much more, providing solid answers on every topic. Logically consistent? Well, let’s not get ahead of...

Working on it

by | Sep 29, 2004 | News & Commentary

I’ve had a pretty sore back ever since last Sunday’s 7-0 soccer victory up in Portland. I mentioned, I think, that the Division 2 team I’m playing on is absolutely loaded with talent and will in all likelihood clean up the league. I saw nothing on...

Stopping idiocy in its tracks

by | Sep 29, 2004 | Essays

If not me, then who? If not now, then when? If not here, then where? If not ham, then no cheese. I throw eggs at a UP professor’s scrambled take on morality, Christianity, and the military. Humpty Dumpty had a big fall. The following nonsense appeared in the...

I run around

by | Sep 25, 2004 | Kids

Seriously, I don’t know what Mom and Dad would do if I weren’t here to tell them where to go. In tonight’s game, we were very clearly running around downstairs between the filing cabinet and the toy car. But without my pointing and clapping,...

Technology du jour

by | Sep 22, 2004 | Apple

If you’ve not already tried RSS (Really Simple Syndication) via Net Newswire or FireFox, do yourself a favor. The collection of web sites I browsed regularly took about an hour a day. Using RSS, it takes about 10 minutes. That’s because RSS gives you the...