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Doc Nagel's Top 100 Things 23. Heroes. I just love 'em. George Carlin's death has me thinking about heroes, strangely, because i...

People living under rocks may not have heard yet that California's Supreme Court ruled that everyone, regardless of gender or sex, shoul...

Well, this is just unspeakably awful. I don't have anything to say about it, it's not about me in any way, except that I live in Tur...

We have two side bets going on this summer's weather. We've each picked the number of days we predict the temperature to reach or ex...

California is a series of paint spills and beautiful, opportunistic cruelties along the West Coast of North America.

Doc Nagel's Top 100 Things 24. Clean kitchens. I just love 'em. We're down in LA to visit, just around my loveliest's ma All...

At some point, this blog will return to usual programming. The Pittsburgh Penguins lost the Stanley Cup Finals to the Detroit Red Wings, 4 g...

The rules of this game are very simple: list 10 odd true facts about yourself, along with 5 odd lies about yourself. Mix 'em up. Serve. ...

Our buddies Christina (alt. X-ina) and Guerin got hitched this weekend at Ironstone Vineyards up in Murphys, CA. After 100 degree days the w...

Last night, the kittoises slept almost through the night. When I woke to the alarm (a cd player alarm; the Monkees, I swear to it), they wer...

Oh, good grief! Do you have any idea how much strain seeing cuteness like this simply does not cause? Can you imagine the degree of pain and...

This afternoon I read a handful of the last response papers I'm getting from my two classes of Contemporary Moral Issues for the semeste...

People who read this blog (I could name approximately 3) know of my predilection for freshly-vacuumed carpets . With a fluffy cat and two lo...

Doc Nagel's Top 100 Things 28. Elections. I just love 'em. We just got the info packet from the State for the Primary Election on Ju...

We're sure it'll be a monster chart-topper. I'm not climbing any stairs not vaulting any cross-bars, not climbing any ladders, s...

This is a meme. This is only a meme. For the next thirty-six questions, this blog will conduct a meme. The idea is, you post replies to the ...

So, many of my students this semester did poorly on their first papers, around mid-term. I invited them to re-write papers, spent some time ...

My loveliest is off at some sort of bridal brunch kinda thing, so I'm here with the monster kittens (as of this writing, Arthur is in th...

Not homesick, but unwell, and not teaching classes today. Bleh. But I did have something to share: How To Use The Litterbox by Arthur Step ...

Turns out that proposed Fed regulations of mortgages might cool down the subprime mortgage market to the dismay of mortgage companies . It m...