Oh What An Untangled Web
So there I was minding my own business when someone mentioned that orb-weaving spiders made [...]
A World Series, And Everyone’s Out
We love baseball. Any kind of baseball: major league, park-league, softball, even the kind where [...]
Me Too
Me too, naturally. I'll start with just a couple, for now. The earliest ones. Nothing [...]
You’d Think They’d Be On Snow White’s Side
The Trump administration has announced the rollback of major provisions of the Obama-era Poison Apple [...]
Dispatches From The Crust
I recently mentioned that I have moments of doubt while writing. Not many, and not [...]
A Comma Mistake
I got into a tiff with my word processing program the other day. I've got [...]
Encore Avec Le Petit Pantalon Grenouille?
Throughout most of human history, women were not expected to make a contribution to science. [...]
With The Greatest Of “EEEEEEEEEEs!”
If I were going to do something on my birthday that was really special, something [...]
Bang.
Oh, well, shoot (as they say). I don't know. We've got a problem with guns. [...]
Stand Up. Sit Down. Fight, Fight, Fight.
It began when quarterback Colin Kaepernick dropped quietly to one knee during the national anthem, [...]
It’s A Fly Ball
We have flies. Not a ton of them, really, just your standard set, and they're [...]
Money, Honey
Can we talk about money? By now you've probably heard that most of today's money [...]
Spare The Hotrod And Spoil The Child
If you're raising kids these days, you'd best toe the line. We know a lot [...]
Noberry Home
It was early September, time for Mary Ann and me to go on our annual [...]
On Sucking
The cloud's silver lining is more of an ash gray at this point, but here [...]