There was a special election here Tuesday. I found out about it yesterday evening, because neither I nor anyone I know received any kind of notification. There was a 17% voter turn-out, and they raised the state income tax by 25%. There's no legislative recourse because Ohio has no initiative or recall process, and there's no legal recourse ( Read more... )

Eight years ago, as an impoverished college student faced with the specter of rising gas prices, Joel-Henry vowed that, no matter how far out of his way he had to go, he would never pay more than $2.00 a gallon for gas. Impractical, yes, but he has always been an idealist ( Read more... )

...is problematic ( Read more... )

Last weekend I got horribly vomitoriously sick. A major perk of being married is someone else willing to clean up your barf. Things have quieted down since then, but I've been running at the nose pretty much constantly. And somehow I've managed to melt all the skin off of two parts of my mouth and then eat something with vinegar in it every ( Read more... )

What a difference a vowel makes. Last night on TV there was a whole commercial for a woman named Joy Padgett, who was running for congress. *Sigh.* If only...