Posted in Government, Life, News and Politics, Writing on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Flags wave, fireworks fly, and magnetic stickers abound. But what does it mean to be patriotic? On the 232nd anniversary of the declaration creating the United States of America, it’s worth a few minutes to consider. An essay from the Makinac Center for Public Policy captures much of how I feel.
It isn’t that flags, fireworks, or [...]
Posted in Life, Site, Uncategorized on June 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The latter part of May and early June are particularly crazy times, both at home and at work. So, I’m really not off the air for good, you see. It’s more like having concluded my broadcast day and taking a breather.
What? You don’t remember when TV stations used to sign off for the night? Well, [...]
Posted in Life, Photography, Uncategorized on May 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Over 650,000 US combat deaths since the start of the American Revolution two hundred thirty-three years ago. We honor the memory of their sacrifice tomorrow, those who lost their lives knowingly and unknowingly, willingly and unwillingly. Giving them a few minutes remembrance once or twice a year is not enough: We would honor them better [...]
Posted in Life, Writing on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Last August I was musing about the start of the school year and all the possibilities it represents. The school year ends in a few weeks, in only a few months our oldest daughter will be applying to colleges and, before we know it, she will have gone on to the next stage of her [...]
Posted in Automobiles, Business, Government, Life, News, News and Politics, Politics, Science, Science and Technology, Technology, Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two weeks ago I was critical of Senator John McCain’s proposal for a national “gas tax holiday.”
Now Senator Hillary Clinton is backing a similar idea. Though she has added a twist to the proposal with a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, the idea of a gas tax holiday is still a bad one, regardless of [...]
Posted in Automobiles, Life, Science and Technology, Technology, Travel, Uncategorized on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
So, on our recent tour of colleges in the Baltimore-Virginia-Washington, DC-New York-New Jersey areas we rented a car from Budget. One of the options was the Where2 GPS for another $48 for the week.
What a bargain.
On our trip, rather than struggling with paper maps, we used the Garmin StreetPilot C550-based Where2 GPS. An absolute God-send. [...]
Posted in Automobiles, Life, Music, Travel, Uncategorized on April 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No college visits today. It’s time to go home. Our companion (well, one of our companions, but more about that later) was a 2008 Ford Fusion SEL like the one pictured above. Acquired temporarily through Budget Rent-A-Car, the Ford Fusion was a worthy mount for our tour of schools in the Washington, DC-Baltimore-Virginia and New [...]
Posted in Life, Travel, Uncategorized on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The final day of the college tour with our oldest daughter. It’s been a long week, but a worthwhile and interesting experience. Our last visit was to Columbia University, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Our trip in from New Jersey was uneventful, but we arrived just barely in time. Columbia seemed in [...]
Posted in Life, Travel, Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
College tour fatigue is beginning to set in. We got to Seton Hall University almost an hour before the information session was scheduled to start. At this point, enrollment numbers, acceptance and admission rates, student-faculty ratios, mean SAT scores, campus housing, security, and activity information is beginning to all blur together. We’ve both been taking [...]
Posted in Food, Food and Drink, Life, Travel, Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Foregoing the delights of the Waffle House we continued our tour Tuesday with a visit to the University of Mary Washington. Like Johns Hopkins the day before, UMW has a lush green campus and is covered with brick colonnaded buildings (with a few examples of more modern institutional architecture thrown in, like other schools, often not [...]
