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Today, I went to Rome to spend the day with Dad. I'm helping him maintain his checkbook, take care of his bills, etc.--but I've gott...

NBC did it again. Tonight, Heroes ran 2 or 3 minutes overtime... but of course, the network didn't bother to schedule that ahead of tim...

I've talked about trimming away some of the ephemera that has attached itself to me over five-and-a-third decades; I've trimmed back...

I haven't written anything here in a week or so; I fear that I was so preoccupied that I just couldn't bring myself to write. The ho...

I just got confirmation that one of the victims of the shootings at Virginia Tech was Jamie Bishop, the son of Michael & Jeri Bishop o...

Just watched Flight 93, the superlative dramatization of the only September 11th, 2001, hijacking that failed to accomplish its goal. It i...

Today, I got rid of my golf clubs. It's not like I gave up a long-standing hobby, mind you. These were clubs that my dad gave me in the ...

Today, Dr. Sturn did the root canal I talked about a couple of weeks ago. I assure you, I slept very little last night; instead, I lay there...

While I primarily use Comcast's superb cable modem service (and I have to say that it has the highest up-time record of any online servi...

B.C. creator Johnny Hart passed away on April 7th, one day before the release of what is destined to the final in a controversial series of...