My Grumpy Mother Nature Song
Is it just me, or has Mother Nature been, this year … grouchy? Surly? Cross? Cantankerous? Yeah, I thought so, too. Maybe we brought it on ourselves, the way everyone has been storming at each […]
Is it just me, or has Mother Nature been, this year … grouchy? Surly? Cross? Cantankerous? Yeah, I thought so, too. Maybe we brought it on ourselves, the way everyone has been storming at each […]
I got my first cell phone in late 2001, for use in emergencies. It’s capabilities: making phone calls. But oh, how times changed, as what happened just five years later shows. I just wanted to […]
We got a new radio system in our dispatch center, and the guy training us on it claimed we could use it at home, on a laptop. This is a great idea in theory: It […]
A guy in Montreal turned a paperclip into a house. Let’s start at the beginning: It was a regular, run of the mill red paperclip, which Kyle MacDonald noticed on his desk while sitting around […]
Have you ever received one of those e-mails about all the amazing things you can do with, say, Coke, or some other seemingly innocent substance? (I mean Coca-Cola, not the drug that used to be […]
By now you’re all sick of 2025 being as bad as 2024, and maybe you’re thinking of just cancelling the rest of the 2020s. Low ratings, right? They cancelled Firefly. But my wife and I […]
During the last national election (in the otherwise cursed year of 2024), Tippecanoe County, Indiana received a number of write-in ballots for the office of President. I’ve always thought of write-ins as being the sign […]
I don’t do resolutions, because failing is a terrible way to start a new year. If you make a major life change, do it gradually. A New Year’s Resolution is like someone who never exercised […]
T’was the night before Christmas when I met my partner, Mary Darling, for our Christmas Eve shift in the City of Angels. “Merry Christmas, Darling.” The squad room’s halls were decked. “Feliz Navidad,” replied Darling, […]
It can be nice to sit in our house and let the summer breeze blow past. Or, to get even more breeze, we could open the windows. My house leaks like a Washington insider. Over […]