Monthly Archive: May 2013

First, my apologies to all planning or interested in attending Leaguefest 2013 next month in Chicago; I had planned on having a schedule close to finalized for the event sometime in late April, or...

This is the early season for wildlife management. We are planting crops to entice wild creatures to visit the farms we hunt. We attempt to decide if deer will prefer clover or alfalfa this...

How much have you guys heard about the whole Bloomberg scandal, where Bloomberg media outlets were accessing information on their own users/customers and the reporters making use of this information. Now, Bloomberg itself has...

As the father of a child on the autism spectrum, I do not know what I would do if I found out someone was doing this.  It’s already bad enough for parents that have...

So, I finally got around to seeing “Django Unchained” and, in all honesty, my reaction is, “Meh.”

We had fun last time, we’re going to do it again. The plan is to play Small World this coming Saturday Night, get your details at the link.

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, evidently not happy that he’s second fiddle to the craziness of fellow Japan Restoration Party leader Shintaro Ishihara has said one of the most morally repugnant and repulsive things said...

So I’m seeing a lot of hyperventilating about the revelations that the DOJ has been conducting traffic analysis. I thought it would be helpful to have a brief primer post on the subject of...

This doesn’t look good: The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented...

Until a few days ago, the only Robert Parker (“RP”) I was aware of was the late author of the Spenser books.  There is another: the influential and controverisal wine critic.  Seeing as I...

If all goes as planned tomorrow, Minnesota, where I reside will become the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage.  I’m sharing a post I wrote back in 2011.  It ended up on Frum Forum,...

So, over the weekend the good and decent Doc and I were chatting back and forth by text.

That’s Amy, the mother of my children at the helm, and Maureen, the mother of Mon Tiki build Dave Rutkowski’s children talking to her; plus Dave and all our children. Gorgeous day. Hope yours...

(Our kickoff post is here, and our discussion posts are here, here, here, here, and here.) So we decided that we needed a week to breathe and so we’re taking this week as a...

Whether it be to humans specifically or to the more general category of entities who look up to you as the giver of food, affection, and sewage management, Happy Mother’s Day to all of...