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(Still feeling my way along here – please work with me.  What follows is pretty much a slightly tweaked reprint of my most recent biweekly print column, which is usually more personal and local, although this one still is broader in nature. If you are a regular reader, see if […]

Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off is a request for you (yes, you); I want to hear from you (no, I will not use or abuse your email address in any way, shape, or form [and for those old enough to remember, nor will […]

(Before beginning, a personal note. I haven’t been feeling well today, so completion of this offering was delayed. Here I am stressing out, picturing readers trying and trying to access the new column and getting more and more frustrated when they couldn’t. And then I thought suppose no one even […]

     Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, biologists at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game are hoping to get a closer look at a mountain lion with a strange deformity that was recently […]

     Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, it may seem like a crazy urban legend, but it’s not! In China, drivers who have injured pedestrians will sometimes then try to kill them. Security […]

     (Before starting this week’s offering, a few random thoughts. This column is Volume 20, Number 52 for the year, which means, of course, that next week’s will be Volume 12, Number 1, which begins a brand new year. Where did this year go? It has been said that life […]

     Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, it was a very good year. As if 2015 weren’t bad enough for the Department of Homeland Security (e.g., in June, internal DHS tests revealed that its […]

Volume 20, Number 50, December 6, 2015      Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, truth in advertising? Last month, lawyer Michael Petersen of Appleton, Wisconsin, was ordered by county judge Philip Kirk (in a […]

Volume 20, Number 50      Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. First, Art Basel, the annual weeklong festival for “One-Percenters” in Miami Beach, happened last week (I wasn’t invited), and among the many excesses is […]

Greetings, and thanks for joining me for another week. Starting us off are a few news stories you may have missed. A Waffle House employee in Mississippi was shot dead after she asked a customer to stop smoking in the restaurant, police said. Johnny Max Mount, 45, was allegedly smoking […]