My wife and I like the series Rome on HBO. We watched the first season last year and were quickly caught up by the characters, situations ...

Like a few million other Americans I watched the State Of The Union address last night. I didn't expect much and didn't get much fro...

Whatever happened to the word "bunco"? We who used to watch Dragnet were used to hearing the word when Jack Webb as Joe Friday wo...

This is a yearbook picture of my dad, Leon, taken when he was in prep school, circa 1936, which would have made him about 15 or 16. He looks...

Here are some odds 'n' ends today. My brain is still semi-frozen from being out in the Arctic-like weather all day. ******* Hey! Som...

Today is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Happy birthday, Dr. King. Where I live, Utah, was the last state to recognize the King holi...

This was a week of interesting surprises. First surprise, interesting but no fun, is how damn cold it's gotten. It's settled over mo...

This morning I got one of those e-mails that your friends send you, things that they received that they pass along. It was titled Did You Kn...

If a year had an asshole, it would be January. ******* We're a week into 2007. How many resolutions did you make, and how many have you ...

Has anybody here seen my old friend Saddam? Can you tell me where he's gone? I thought I saw him walking Up over the hill, With Jerry F...

ME RR Y CHRI S TMA S 2 00 6 ! I found this picture on a soldier's blog. Sorry for appropriating it, guys, but I want to use you to make...

Comcast Cable's On Demand is showing the 1956 science fiction movie Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers on its Free Movies section. I'd ...

Mom asked me, "So what do you want Santa to bring you for Christmas?" My answer was immediate. "I want a Superman suit!"...

Brian Williams, of NBC Nightly News, ran a report tonight on Baby Boomers and their love of the music of their youth. Well, naturally. Every...

A year ago today I was driving home from work, slammed into the car ahead of me, totaled my pickup truck, then laid on my couch for six week...

Sally and I were talking about some people we worked with in the 1970s. Laura Jo worked with Sally. She was a woman in her early twenties, a...

For the past five days Salt Lake City has been helpless in the throes of one of our winter inversions. A high pressure systems sits over us,...

Only about three weeks until Christmas, so I guess it's time to break out the BAH, HUMBUG! badge I wear on my coat during the season. As...