Jonah crawls!…backward

The little boy is so, so close to getting this right. When will my weight loss plan of chasing him around start? Try as he might, Jonah can’t quite grasp the concept of crawling forward yet. He’s on all fours and in prime position, but his coordination is...

MEROL Food Tasters’ Club

Battle Ground, Washington Complete with secret handshake and decoder ring. Oh, and awesome Italian dinner, too. Maria, Erin, and Carol (MEROL) seemed somewhat uncertain as to whether today’s cooking get-together constituted the beginnings of a club or not. I had...

The Two Towers on DVD

Super extended gob-stopper edition. Short-form review: If you liked The Fellowship of the Ring, you’ll like The Two Towers. I picked up the extended DVD version (43 new minutes on top of an already 3 hour running time) last night at Best Buy. The Two Towers DVD...

Best 3-7 team ever!

Last time I wrote about the Steelers I said they had four big problems: (1) A porous offensive line, (2) a running back (Bettis) who was inconstantly used, and (3) a secondary that couldn’t cover my grandmother—either of them, and one of them’s dead—and...

The fallacy of coercive power

This is also why most hierarchies fail. Top-down doesn’t work. It looks increasingly like the US will bail on Iraq in June, by which time I expect the US casualty count to top 10,000 as I predicted back in March. (The current casualty count is slightly above...