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The Oregonian's latest "Special Report"—their attempt to garner a Pulitzer, in other words—deals with those three- and more commonly four-wheeled deathtraps known as ATVs (or All Terrain Vehicles). The Oregonian calls this report "ATVs: Deceptively Dangerous" which is fine, except that there's nothing deceptive about it. Anyone nuts enough to...

Going on now at Fred Meyer, and not that I'm inclined to provide them any added publicity, but I did find their 2 for $10 DVD sale compelling. You might too.

Jonah sent a little faucet handle cap down the drain in the bathroom. I broke said drain trying to retrieve it. Looks like we'll proceed with the rest of the bathroom remodel now. Additionally coming soon: New exterior family room walls—fully insulated with R-21, a new family room window, and maybe some garage cabinetry. Also, a dwindling of cash on...

My company has taken out a couple of ads in the upcoming Dex Yellow Pages. The process was a lot more convoluted that necessary, and I can't say I'm universally happy about that, but in the end I got what I wanted, and if I pick up one client a month from the advertising, it will be worth it. It's worth mentioning also that Yellow Pages advertising is not...

It's hard to believe, given all the scientific progress made by humankind, that some people still don't believe in evolution. It is not hard to believe that the Republican presidential field has three of these people (Brownback, Tancredo, and Huckabee).

As at least a few of you know, I spent a lot of time doing video production work while earning my Communication degree at the University of Portland. This was during the late '80s and early '90s, and though I became reasonably well-versed on the technology of the time, we live in a different age today. Apple's Final Cut Studio along with Shake can, for the...

Erin will be bailing on the school year several weeks early, working through Memorial Day (May 26) then calling it good. For several reasons, not just pregnancy, this has been a more difficult academic year than most, and taking a few weeks off before baby #3 strikes us both as a very good opportunity to recharge our batteries before the new kid arrives...

Erin had a Saturday class to attend, so Jonah, Elisha, and I dropped in on Dave this morning. He's got a nifty amount of space upstairs for kids to play and plenty of things for kids to boot. Elisha, however, spent most of her time petting and following Dave's cat Macy. Jonah? He got into the Hotwheels, the Thomas the Tank Engine stuff, and so forth. We...

I'm not a Hillary Clinton fan. If forced to I may vote for her, but the list of candidates I prefer is pretty long, including every other Democratic candidate and maybe a Republican or two (though if I had to name a Republican for whom I'd vote right now, I don't think I could do it). So it should be no surprise that I was less than smitten by her praise...

I'm wondering if given the the furor over Gonzales v. Carhart, the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold bans on so-called partial birth abortion, that people understand that part of the holding in Roe v. Wade was that the State has a legitimate interest in protecting unborn human life. Somehow this always gets missed, to the point now where the popular...