Manning is fighting for his life. He and a killer with a gun are going at it, street fighting on the deck of a boat, in a desperate struggle...

Some time ago in this blog I complained that the expression, "hubba-hubba," appears to have disappeared from the lexicon of males ...

On the local morning news I saw a contestant from The Biggest Loser TV show (sorry, I didn't catch her name), answer questions from vie...

To kill some time yesterday before a game on TV, I watched a two week old episode of CSI . I think the show goes out of its way with violenc...

Sally and I took some pictures today. I drove her to a street I traveled every work day. It's been a tradition every year for the homeow...

The other day I read one of those factoids--interesting facts of no real importance--that had a headline, "Men were first to wear high ...

A local news story tells of a guy who stole a school bus and led police on a chase. Pursuers, in the interests of public safety, called off ...

I tried to think of something that could be a tribute to John Lennon for his 70th birthday. I just haven't been able to come with up wit...

The last few years have seen some attention paid to bullying in public schools. I saw a couple of stories about it just yesterday, one on th...

I found this picture, framed, on a friend's wall. (Click on these pictures to make them big so you can see what I'm talking about.) ...

I've got one more day to enjoy beautiful Northern California, but in the meantime I've got some of my favorite postings that I'm...

I'm still out of town, so I'm recycling old posts. Here's a favorite of mine from April 17, 2007: Today I was speaking to a teac...

I'm reposting some of my favorite oldies while I'm partying in Northern California with friends. This is from April 9, 2007: Going t...

I'm out of town, so I've found some of my favorite old postings to recycle. I've been following the stories of Tea Partiers (unk...

After I wrote in my last blog about incivility in politics I went to my files to find more examples from a national perspective. It's n...

I've written about Curtis Allgier before. He's an inmate in the Utah State Prison who killed his 60-year-old guard while at a hospit...