From way back in 2008, mine own first post:

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Greetings From Sunny Seattle

Walter Cronkite is dead at age 92. This started off as a comment over on big Salon, but I saw it was starting to get a bit long and besides, I'm not sure that's the right audience. So I came over here.

I'm like many Americans of a certain age; Walter… Read full post »

I haven't posted anything in quite awhile, so I just thought I'd let people know that I was still sucking air.

The photo is of a pool in Stickney Brook in W. Dummerston, Vt., where I caught my first fish ( a brook trout) when I was about 4 years… Read full post »

In today's NY Times, there is an article by Richard Oppel about Capt. Kirk Black, a National Guard officer, U.S. Captain Hears Pleas for Afghan Detainee. Captain Black, a National Guard officer who is a member of Baltimore's SWAT team in civilian life, is in Afghanistan to help rain… Read full post »

"Well" you ask, and well you might, "just why does that John Leonard fellow hide behind photos of innocent dogs? An unfortunate incident with a flame thrower when he was younger? A biological experiment gone hideously wrong? Or even less likely, is the boy so handsome that even Cary Grant… Read full post »

 Sometimes things are just too neat for words. This new little toy out of MIT's Media Labs certainly qualifies. For $350 in off-the-shelf parts and 3 months of free labor from a very bright bunch of people you can have one too.

Just think of the paroxysms of tech-envy you'll… Read full post »

No real details, but the Captain of the US-flagged ship held by pirates has been freed. Three pirates are dead, but it appears the Captain is unhurt.

Read about it  here . Read full post »

It seems that we can thank a Spanish judge for doing what our own Justice Dept. won't. Which is to say, at least look into possible violations of international law at Guantanamo. While this will probably get exactly zero cooperation from the Obama administration (all part of looking forward, you… Read full post »

Back in 2003, Savana Redding had a very bad day at school, you can read about it in today's NY Times . She was a 13 year-old eighth grader at the time, and it seems that one of her friends, having been caught with a couple of tabs of prescription-strength… Read full post »

I ran across this group today and thought i tmight be worth passing on. They do a cover of "Go Your Own Way" that needs to be heard to be believed.

Well, it does happen once in awhile. The rain freezes before it hits the ground and it snows here in Sunny Seattle. So far in Shoreline (just north of the city), we've received about 2". That's probably over Freaky's waist, so Deven will need to get her some snowshoes if she ventures… Read full post »

Well, back in sodden, grey Seattle after a wonderful visit back home to sodden, grey (and last Saturday cold) New England. Could it be a sign of acclimatization to Seattle that I moan about the 20° F temperature in East Boston when we picked up the rental car? Lord, how delicate… Read full post »

Boris and Natasha at rest - not their typical state, I assure you.

OK, I just couldn't resist, here they are, or should I say "Here I Am"?:

Who are you?
I’m a twentieth-century man, but I don’t want to be one. – The Kinks

Are you male or female?
I’m a man, yes I am – Steve Winwood

What Place do you love best?
Yeah, down by… Read full post »

First it was Shrub and Prime Minister "Poutine". Now it's Sarah Palin getting pranked by a couple of DJs from Montreal.

Funny, when she thought she was speaking with Pres. Sarkozy, I couldn't hear any Fargo in Palin's voice. Read full post »

As politics seems to be ruling the airwaves and intertubes these days (gee, I wonder why) and as Rob St. Amant points out visits to "Crazytown" are all the rage, here's something a little lighter. Just where will you end up in hell? Personally, I was a little disappointed… Read full post »

Folks, we wondered if it was possible, but a McCain robocall finally got so slimy, a crew of 30 - 4- (report svary) telemarketers walked of the job in Indiana, losing the remainder of the day's pay rather than read it. These folks aren't rich people, losing a day's pay hurts.… Read full post »

Hi All, 

Here's a fun little tim-killer that's safe for in-work use.  

BTW - I'm a Ferrari 360 Modena!

You've got it all. Power, passion, precision, and style. You're sensuous, exotic, and temperamental. Sure, you're expensive and high-maintenance, but you're worth it.

"Take… Read full post »

At least they have a probable trigger-puller.  Read full post »

 Susan, thanks for the break you gave us in your latest post and congratulations on your third year, I hope clean bills of health have a chance to become monotonous for you.

By way of thanks, here are a few of my favorites. They're places, I'm not much of a… Read full post »

As I (and multitudes of others) have figured it, this current incarnation of the Wall St. bailout, not that even the conservative economists are calling it that, is going to cost each of us a minimum  of $2,000 (do you really think this is only going to cost only $700B?). That really… Read full post »

Ed Kilgore has an interesting post on his Democratic Strategist blog about a possible storm brewing in Iraq.  This comes into line with a piece I heard on NPR's Morning Edition earlier this week  on the hunting of the predominantly Sunni Awakening or "Sons of Iraq" militias by th… Read full post »