An auspicious day

This entry over at Nicole’s gofish made me sad and upset. It’s against the rules for U.S. soldiers in Iraq to have pets, but the skinny black puppy that wandered up to the Florida National Guard soldiers at  [more...]

Every time I’d been up to Palo Alto, it seemed like a tiny hamlet with little to do and nothing to see. I kept looking for a mall, a theatre, anything at all to make it seem like another city. Finally, last night  [more...]

It seems that we are nearing the end of the golden age of television comedians; Louis Nye is the latest to leave us. Louis Nye, 92, a straight-faced comic actor whose television career spanned a half-century, died of  [more...]