Daughter Number Three

I mentioned before that my parents were dyed-in-the-wool Democrats. That meant that they went to a lot of events where well-known politicia...

From a news story about Amazon's "natural" gas power plant planned for Texas, which will generate more greenhouse gas emission...

I'm declaring a reading vacation. Which makes things lean in the blog department on some days, but that's the way it is. Escapism fr...

I heard on NPR on the way home this afternoon that ICE plans to spend our tax dollars to buy millions of dollars worth of shock gloves to pu...

I try to put images of Trump on this blog as little as possible, despite the regime's egregious use of AI images to puff him up. (For ex...

We're going through some boxes of stuff from the basement, deciding what to keep and what to recycle (or send to the trash, which in Sai...

Alex Wellerstein, a nuclear historian and professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, wrote a long thread today on BlueSky about the bomb...

It seems like most of the time when I catch news stories from National Public Radio, they are regurgitating some Trump regime press release....

The Trump regime's assault on Head Start doesn't get the attention it should. This AP story from a few days ago and this update de...

Sometimes you have to put your fingers in your ears and say "I'm not listening" to *everything* and just... eat some ice cream...

Another year, another family reunion in Wisconsin Dells. (Here's a previous post about that place .) It's been a tourist attraction ...

Today, my Facebook feed reminded me that 12 years ago, I was in Washington, D.C. That was during the Obama administration, when there were n...