A (now deleted) Tweet from an alt-rightie demanded to know, "Please explain how millions of pink hats were manufactured and delivered with military precision all on the same day ( Read more... )

I had to drive into work this morning, so AM Radio it was. 770 KVI is Rush Limbaugh's channel, but before he's on they have a "morning drive" show with two clowns who aren't quite as crazy as most right wing talk show hosts.

This morning, the hosts were talking about the recent article on superagers, people who remain mentally fit and vibrant in ( Read more... )

Last night, after the light rail dropped me off at my stop, as I was walking to my car a woman who had been on the train started walking toward the street, then stopped and asked me, "Excuse me, how far is it from here to Tacoma ( Read more... )

Last night, I attended a school board "conversation" for my district. The topics on the table were the current budget crunch and the district policy regarding suspension. About a dozen citizens showed up.

The suspension issue caught my attention. The district has a "NO SUSPENSIONS EVER*" policy, and in tiny letters on the policy description ( Read more... )

So National Coming Out Day and Bisexuality Visibility Day both passed by without my chiming in much of anything. I don't know why. My own sexual proclivities are so out there on the Internet that I don't even understand why someone is talking about some poor civilian's opinion of porn films from 2004, but apparently we are. C'mon, it's not like ( Read more... )

For sixteen years, Omaha and I have been blessed with amazing neighbors to the west. We were initially skeptical, as they were one of those families with their church and seven children, with one more obviously on the way even as we moved in. They're the sort of people that subscribe to one of those video managing services that pre-reads a ( Read more... )

An hour before dusk on friday night, Omaha, Raen (nee' Kouryou-chan) and I all piled into the car and headed out for Rattlesnake Lake to watch the Pereid Meteor Shower. The weather promised to be exquisite, and as we drove up through the valley it looked like it was going to stay clear through the night ( Read more... )

Out of curiousity I installed Pokémon GO on my phone a couple of days ago and... it's addictive. I'm already a walker who enjoys wandering around my city for my lunch break and taking different routes to get from the office to the light rail station, so having another reason to look around and register the landmarks, learn about ones I haven't ( Read more... )

A couple of months ago I discussed having idiopathic dysgeusia, a benign condition associated with middle age in which everything tastes bad and funny. One of the hypotheses floated originally was posioning, that somehow I had encountered something that damaged the inside of my mouth ( Read more... )

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