Tag Archives: Events of the Day

More snow….

This really hasn’t been a very hard winter, in terms of snow. In fact, there’s only been one or two really “big” snow events, and one of those was really only notorious by virtue of when and how the snow … Continue reading

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Happy Pi Day!!!

UPDATE 3/14/2019 I see this post is getting a lot of traffic all of a sudden, so if you like this sort of goofiness, check out my similar post from last year, which features a newer video in which I … Continue reading

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Dear 45 (an Open Letter to the President of the United States)

Dear Mr. President, Yes, you are my President. But I do not support you, and I do not expect good things from you. I do not expect good policy choices, nor do I expect good outcomes. My expectations for you … Continue reading

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Dear 44 (an Open Letter to the President of the United States)

Dear Mr. President, I honestly never thought writing something on the occasion of your impending departure from office would feel so bittersweet, but my God — I didn’t expect a lot of things. On the night you won the Presidency, … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday (Thanksgiving edition)

Well…I dunno, folks. I personally have had a relatively decent 2016, but outside my own little sphere, my God, this year has been a disaster. What year was worse? 1914? 1929? 1939? I’ve no idea. And the year ends with … Continue reading

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Yes, I have thoughts on the election

No, I’m not sharing them. Not yet. I’m still formulating them in my head and thinking of ways to utter them without liberal use of words like “m*****f*****”.

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Our choices are not unlike those of Master Samwise

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Why #ImWithHer

Because. I think that she is genuinely the best choice in this election. I believe that she would and will be a good President, and that she also represents the best chance to avoid electing a truly awful one. Her … Continue reading

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Fifteen years and counting

I took this photos last year when we visited NYC at Thanksgiving. One thing I remember thinking, standing there by those square gaps in the ground where towers once rose, is that the buildings weren’t quite so wide as I … Continue reading

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Two Hundred Forty

Happy birthday, America!

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