I live here. You (presumably) live here.  We stand in line at the grocery store with city workers, teachers, dishwashers, kids in hoodies an...

 Well, here we are. A few years older and none the more wiser.  I thought we were pretty much over this shit, but I've come to realize t...

"It’s just a game," a friend posted on Facebook recently. A rather sophisticated augmented reality game where you use your mobi...

I've been trying to avoid posting political stuff here, but the silly White House Petition site may actually prove to be of some use if ...

When I was in high school, still breaking in my new driver’s license, some buddies and I took a half-hour road trip into The ‘Ta to hang ou...

Just a few of my own thoughts (well, I suppose I'm not the only one with these thoughts) to close out the discussion on the TSA's ag...

As you know, from time to time I'll post guest editorials about various topical subjects. These guest posts do not necessarily reflect ...

Today's category: Watching the watchmen As we make the government more responsible for our everyday lives (food, shelter, health care, e...

A week and a half ago, financial luminaries in Europe (and in the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank) decided to give bankrupt Greece a larger line o...

Sure, some people are calling the oil spill in the Gulf a "crisis." And I guess to certain people with certain world views, it is ...

Politicians and their sheeple have done a great job this year of bringing back race as a wedge issue. We were all really concerned that once...

There was something I wanted to keyboard about a couple of weeks ago, but because I've got a good job in the city, working for the man e...

Don't you hate it when you're trying to have a conversation, trying to reply to a comment, and you realize you've gone passed th...

Uncle Nick was kind enough to point out one of the money quotes from the ongoing Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings headed by Ph...

I have to hand it to the Obama administration. They have really renewed the faith I have in our federal government. Not that my faith was fa...