The Justice League: Amateur Version
Let's review. Your correspondent is the eleventh of thirteen jurors selected for a civil case [...]
Twelve Plus A Spare
Ah, jury duty. It's been a decade or so, but before that they called me [...]
The State Of Our Union Is Wrong
Like everybody else, except Native Americans who might otherwise like to vote, the State of [...]
Quiver Me Timbers
My dad studied mushrooms. People used to send him slides of mushrooms they had photographed [...]
Tacking Toward Virtue
There's a lot of stuff we can do better as individuals. We can drive less, [...]
Your Brain Is Playing Telephone
As a writer, I have observed that my output improves dramatically if I pause now [...]
Your Odds Were Long
Looking for frog eggs Eggs. Red-legged frogs lug them around this time of year, and [...]
Take The Last Shuttle To Sexville
We've been scooping up frogs and bucketing them across Highway 30 for several years now, [...]
The Universal Ma’amer
"Yes ma'am," I said, and winced instantly, with a furtive glance at the grocery clerk [...]
The Dumpling
Why? What does your plunger look like? My insurance company sent me a card on [...]
Grok Say ‘Uff Da’
Hans and Petra Skari I went ahead and sent my spit to a DNA company, [...]
When Death Approached: The Floofy Swan
I might have been a little hard on ol' Orlando Gibbons, there, the madrigal composer, [...]
The Silver Swanne
I miss our madrigal group. I do. There's something awfully satisfying about making music with [...]
Almost Well Done
The other day--you probably heard--a group of people working together stuck an entire robot on [...]
Got-Choo!
One of the things about our cat Tater, see, is that she is going to [...]