Kids are OK, but grandkids are a LOT better.

The most annoying person in Chicago? You didn't meet me.

It's enough to make you sick.

I second the Custer battlefield, you can feel the ghosts. If you've not already read or listened to it, I recommend the audio version of The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick. If you're going to Glacier, The Belton Chalet at the west entrance is owned by a couple of expats from my area. Drive carefully and enjoy. We'll expect reports from the road.

We got some wind damage out here in the NW boonies.

Especially if it's a female with a litter, and this one apparently was.

I'm curious to know how the Army changed it's screening process. If they are able to so quickly separate the wheat from the chaff, perhaps it's something we could learn to apply to the welfare state.

Adultery is not a "lifestyle choice", but unfortunately it's no longer a crime nor even generally accepted as a moral failing. You'd probably be branded as being judgmental (which there's far too little of these days), but I'd say you were within your rights to refuse service to those whose actions you disapprove.

"Bible and Sword" and "Stillwell and the American Experience in China" by Barbara Tuchman. Actually, anything by Barbara Tuchman is worth reading.

I'm surprised that no one's argued that this is more like Lincoln's justification of the exercise of powers which were Constitutionally questionable.

Bullpen coach for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Zorba the Greek

I'm listening to "Red Gold" right now.

Having just completed a driving trip through Mississippi and Tennessee, I downloaded and listened to "The Reivers" by William Faulkner. It was narrated by John Mayer. It was a delightful story, well read, and re-introduced me to a great American writer.

What a great story. So will these printers and what's printed from them be classified as "medical devices" and subject to Obamacare's medical device tax?

I skipped my brother's wedding to go to the 1980 Georgia-Florida game (Run, Lindsay, run!). They'll get over it.