Our favorite cousin named "Bonnie Stokes" on her graduation from the University of California San Diego with a bachelor's degree. Law school is up next for Ms. Stokes and I'm looking forward to having a lawyer in the family.
Our favorite cousin named "Bonnie Stokes" on her graduation from the University of California San Diego with a bachelor's degree. Law school is up next for Ms. Stokes and I'm looking forward to having a lawyer in the family.
There's an old metaphysical question along the lines of: "If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a noise?" The idea is that something has to be witnessed in order for it to have an impact. I've gotten a couple thousand hits over the past […]
A white Ford pickup truck with a bumper sticker. Bumper sticker has picture of a cell phone with a circle around it and a line through it and the words: "Hang up and Drive!" The driver of the vehicle is...on a cell phone.
Or not enough of the right (and by that I mean correct, not politically right) single men? The always interesting Robert Musil has some analysis on the situation today, capped by the following anecdote. Recently, over dinner, a slender, beautiful, young, intelligent. educated, securities sales woman employed by one of the big New York investment […]
The big upside is, of course, the mortgage interest deduction. Uncle Sam takes a lot less of your hard-earned money when you're paying large amounts of interest. The downside is getting pre-approved loan checks regularly in the mail. Today I received a check/loan for $1,023.55 (how they came up with that not-round figure I'll never […]
At Hoystory we're proud to announce the arrival of the world's greatest niece: Madeline.
I know it's a day after Mother's Day and all. But I'm watching CNN and some talking head is describing how torture at places like Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq start out with seemingly minor things and escalate. Psychologist Philip Zimbardo described one of the tortures: ...had them clean toilet bowls out with their bare […]
One of my colleagues at the Union-Tribune told me he was recently asked by someone if I had a blog. He responded that I did. He was then asked: "Is he (that would be me) conservative?" My colleague's response: "He makes Hannity look like Hillary." Not quite accurate, but I did bust out laughing.