Gold Medalists Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Tara Davis-Woodhall It's been a ride!   I've always paid attention to the Olympics, but...

( edit - 01/29/2025 : for some reason this post is getting hits.  I have no idea why.  say hi in the comments) Over Lockdown, Jamie and I st...

Did some socializing on Monday and on Thursday received the alert that one of the people I'd been socializing with had become sick and s...

For more ways to listen Jamie and Ryan pick up after the 2022 Winter Olympics to talk about the back half, the mess that was women's fig...

For more ways to listen Jamie and Ryan delve into the coverage of the 2022 Winter Games, what's getting a gold medal, what looks like th...

Well, Texas being Texas, it's now a high of 70-something degrees.  Skies are blue, and this is the weather people from out of state get ...

yesterday afternoon, the snow lost its charm Well, Jamie finally got to dialysis.  You can read her account of the past week here . With the...

Scout ponders the inevitable slowing of all atomic motion If you're on the outside of the freeze occurring in our Southern States - and,...

the neighborhood pond is frozen over Since I was in college, way, way back in the 1990's, I've heard nothing but how the power grid ...

Scout figures out snow We're in the middle of a rough winter storm.  Polar vortex nonsense. Click here for pictures Honestly, it's b...

I think a lot about that grotesque video of Donald Trump hugging and kissing a flag.  It's the act of an insincere buffoon putting on a ...

It started with protests in several cities in the wake of the George Floyd murder.  George Floyd was a Black man apprehended by police unde...

People went crazy the last few weeks. I don't really know how else to interpret the furious wrath of church ladies in JC Penny tops sc...

No amount of parody or nihilistic social commentary could have prepared me for what it's actually like to see the virus that's taken...

From October of 2017 to August of 2019, I worked from home for, technically, Northwestern University in Chicago.  Really I was working for a...

Watched:  I mean.. kind of since March 13 - April 5 Viewing:  Firstish Format:  Netflix, HBO, etc... Decade:  2020 Things have gotte...

I'm not writing these posts so much for all of us going through this *now*.   When this is over, I'd like to remember what...  happe...

We've been in some form of lockdown since March 13th. In some ways, this hasn't been entirely different from the nearly two years ...

The first thing I remember hearing was that people were hoarding toilet paper. It had a "man bites dog" element to the news - ...

Sometimes you read about World War I or II and you wonder what you'd have been like in those circumstances.  What would it be like to be...