Yearly Archives: 2016
Cousins
We didn’t think he was getting back from New York until after the girls were gone. I texted him to make sure, and indeed we were wrong. He got back during the day, and said he’d meet us all for dinner and then take them downtown to see the bats and bring them back here […]
Closing Shots
The sun shined and the wind blew again today. Still, the ultimate women were out on the fields from before 9:00 to just before 5:00. Here are some closing shots of two them. The funniest thing… even though they wore different jerseys, they seemed to know each other.
Disc Day
They came to town, again, the frisbee women, for the annual Centex Ultimate Frisbee Tournament. This year not one but two nieces arrived from the west. In their white jerseys, Lexi’s Pie Queens of Cal Berkeley showed us how it was done. And Liza’s Devi of Colorado battled fierce winds rolling across the frisbee fields […]
Fetishizing Phones
Obama was in town the other day for the annual rite of the techno-hip. In keeping with my arm-chair, marginally-informed analyses of the last few days, I have some comments about a comment he made about the FBI’s effort to force Apple to fabricate a security backdoor. Our President said, “We can’t fetishize our phones above […]
Fallen Iris
“If I did that, I would have been in trouble,” Trudy said. I just had taken a step on our garden path and inadvertently pushed an Iris stalk aside, breaking it off the plant. She was right, although I remained silent to hide my shame. I picked up the stalk and and stood there for […]
Anti Trust
There’s a good (long form) article in the Washington monthly by Brian Feldman that talks about the decades-long decline of St. Louis and how much of it can be attributed to the fact that our political system has turned its back on the kind of anti-trust law that I was taught in junior high when […]
The Sound of the Story
NPR’s Renee Montagne was interviewing federal EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy this morning when I got out of the shower. It was a good story that went on for seven minutes. They were discussing Flint. I didn’t hear most of it, but when asked when the water would be safe to drink again, I did hear McCarthy […]
In Front of the Keyboard
“Dude, you’re on a roll today.” Here’s that guy again. He shows up from time to time to lob shots at this blog. I’m not sure what his objective is most of the time. I’m not quite sure how to respond. (To be honest, I’m not sure he even exists and isn’t instead just a […]