Appropriate attire required

I left the house naked the other day.
I did not realize my error until, nearly an hour and 40 miles from home, I discovered I could not pay for my coffee. I’d left my wallet at home.
If my car had not required a key, I’d probably have forgotten that, as well.
I rented a car recently [...]

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Change: don’t wait for November

Change is in the Las Vegas, Nevada, air, the press is swarming, and none of it is about Obama or Clinton, Romney or McCain, or any of the rest of that bunch. Instead, reports are full of Toshiba, Phillips and Canon, Blu-Ray, Skype and Web 2-Oh.
It’s the place to be for us gadget junkies. It’s [...]

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Connections in the rubble of a collapsed building

A piece of Gettysburg history collapsed to the ground last week, only a few days ahead of the bulldozer’s blade. It had been a factory, and a major employer in its area. A big brick building at the side of the main highway through Gettysburg.
Ohio.
The factory, built in the 1920s, was slated to be torn [...]

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Huck’s been readin’ Twain

What you’ve got to love is when a politician puts together an ad calling his opponent a liar, then calls a press conference to tell reporters he’s not going to run the ad because, he says, he wants to run a clean campaign and besides, the voters are smart enough to figure out his opponent’s [...]

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