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Did I fool you? I came up with the water-blogging joke on the fly. Hey, I had to try! Nothing I do will ever top the April Fool’s Day post from 2006. I still can’t believe people fell for it! Check out Secrets. I skipped 2007 and tried again in 2008. Check out Outsourcers Anonymous. [...]

I wish I could embed, but alas… Check out this 18-minute video at ID the Future, which features interviews with scientists who’ve grown skeptical of Darwinian evolution.

Pictures from my “writing retreat” at a harbor in Ventura, CA. (Did I mention I was writing a novel? Self-imposed first draft completion date: sometime during my birthday month of May) I snapped these, weak knees and all, while I was out walking:

If radio show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger says 100 percent of the money donated to Operation Family Fund goes directly the families, that’s good enough for me. Operation Family Fund provides grants to injured military men and women and families injured or killed as part of the war on terrorism. The other day Dr. Laura [...]

A couple weeks ago, a Los Angeles Times reporter contacted me for a feature on Black History Month. She said she was looking for a “range of L.A. personalities” for quotes about Obama and BHM. I was to be the “independent conservative voice.” I was delighted to know I’m considered an L.A. personality, as I’ve [...]

The web has changed the way we do so many things, especially the way we consume news. The video below is a 1981 news story about reading newspapers online. It’s quaint, and there’s a sci-fi quality about it. Several newspapers engaged in a then-time consuming task of putting print news stories online. Check out those [...]

My supermodel-tall 10-year-old niece (she didn’t get that trait from our side of the family, that’s for sure) thinks my at-home antics are funny. I like to make her laugh. And it’s easy to make a 10-year-old laugh. Robin’s * school is in walking distance of where we live, and sometimes I pick her up. [...]