This is as festive as I get

The speeches from the Republican convention are also being provided free of charge on the iTunes music store, just as the speeches from the Democratic convention were. I wonder if they will release any download numbers  [more...]

Yesterday I spent the day in the yard — mowing, trimming, edging, raking, hosing — and it suddenly occurred to me: my little piece of California is something like 3,000 square feet, a miniscule fraction of  [more...]

So, I got some of those wrist bands that say “I DID NOT VOTE 4 BUSH” as a kind of amusing protest. They’re like those annoying fad bands that everyone is wearing these days. As I looked at the black  [more...]