I'm worried about the bird I rescued out of my house this morning.  I got home from the barn to hear a frenzied cheeping.  The cats had the poor thing treed on a window sill, and it was clearly exhausted.  I think it got in yesterday when the locksmith...

There is a monster storm battering the east coast.  They are reading barometric pressures that have never been seen in recorded history.  This is what climate change looks like.  Because higher temperatures spawn killer tornadoes, and freak late October...

I just paused to make a list of the ways in which Republicans split hairs over rape.  Let's see there's -- 1.  Legitimate Rape (Todd Aiken) 2.  Forcible Rape (Paul Ryan) 3.  Emergency Rape (Linda McMahon) 4.  Gift From God Rape (Richard...

I discovered over the weekend that I spent at Mile Hi Con in Denver that there are some things that you really have to experience as a child.  If you wait the magic just doesn't happen. Some things I've taken to like a duck-to-water.  Video gaming, Lady...

I was watching a show about the efforts to suppress voting in this country, and it has my blood boiling.  So, I got to thinking, okay, how do we satisfy this push for voter I.D.?  Which, incidentally is a "solution in search of a problem".  There is...

I had a mad insight into the universe today -- okay, actually just a mad insight as to why this scene in the Wild Card movie wasn't working. I had three people in the scene, and it was just hobbling along.  Once I dropped one character the scene just came to...

When I was a kid I had this very dear friend.  She was beautiful, and stunningly brilliant.  She excelled in science, particularly biology.  She sailed through college, and was offered a full ride to medical school.  Her focus was going to be on...

I'm so glad Scott Brown said Scalia was his favorite supreme court justice.  Maybe the good voters of Massachusetts will notice this little gem of an interview.  Basically Scalia is saying that abortion, and homosexuality are easy cases to decide because...

The whole Scott Brown attack against Elizabeth Warren over her Native American background has finally just completely pissed me off.  My maternal grandfather was half-Cherokee.  That makes me 1/16.  More than enough to petition the tribe if I wanted to....

I'm in the process of having my website redesigned.  It should get a lot cleaner and easier to navigate.  We're finally going to get up the "Doing Good" tab where you can make charity donations and get an autographed book from me. I also ran across a lovely...