My best friend in high school was British, and he was the one who turned me on to Doctor Who (he also took the picture above, of Doctor number six signing a book for me). But there's one aspect of following the show that can be bittersweet for a fan:… Read full post »

 (1963 Studebaker Lark Daytona)

For the majority of my life until I left for college I lived in South Bend, Indiana and I still consider it my hometown. And in South Bend, you live in the long shadow of two things--Notre Dame University and the ghost of Studebaker. If… Read full post »

I have two dogs, a Golden Retriever-Husky mix, and a Pembroke Welsh Corgi. I love them both, but I hearby nominate the corgi as a candidate for first dog. They are smart, loyal, funny dogs, protective but not prone to bite (ahem, Barney), and once you have one, you'll be hooked. … Read full post »

Everyone's seen the picture. It's in every school social studies book. It's President Harry S Truman triumphantly holding up the most famously wrong newspaper headline in American political history--the Chicago Daily Tribune's declaration "Dewey Defeats Truman."

The election of 1948 has beco… Read full post »

It all started as, well, not quite a joke, but as a sort of campaign of benign harassment to convince a college friend to vote. My friend Jim emailed me and some others about a pressing concern. Our friend Rickey wasn't sure if he was going to vote this year. He… Read full post »

My in-laws and the majority of my wife's extended family live in and around Elkhart, Indiana, or nearby in southern Michigan. I hadn't thought that Elkhart, dependent on RV manufacturing and ancillary businesses, would have been unduly affected by the double-whammy of high gas prices, but it has.

The… Read full post »

I must begin with a word about my "blogfather," the blogger who has influenced me more than any other. It's not Markos Moulitsas, or Jeff Tiedrich, founder of The Smirking Chimp, which I used to frequent back in the day; it's not Joe Conason, Glenn Greenwald, Cenk Uyger or Robert Schlesinger,… Read full post »

That was what my son's babysitter asked me today, since he wouldn't be coming in next week. It broke my heart, and amidst all the news about bailout deals and whether they were on or off made me wonder if this is what we were coming to.

We are not phasing… Read full post »

In the midst of an ongoing debate about the presidential election, a family member forwarded a side by side comparison (completely unbiased, natch) of John McCain vs. Barack Obama. It lists McCain's 22 years experience in Congress against 170-odd days for Obama, though I'm not sure how they arrive at… Read full post »

I call bs on the story that Sarah Palin gave a speech, then waited nearly 9 more hours before reporting to the hospital near Anchorage to give birth to her fifth child. Her premature, special needs child.

Given that rumors regarding Bristol Palin being Trig's mother have been proven to be… Read full post »