Potpourri for $500

In ninth grade I was in the inaugural class for Earth Science at my high school. As the inaugural class we had supposedly been selected as b...

As I told CRH recently, his post from the first week of April really sums up everything you could conceivably write about with respect to ...

In advance of my work during the first Fedex Day I procured a variety of scenery materials including a bag of variably sized conifers*. The...

Years ago when I installed the photo backdrops on the walls around the layout, there were a couple of issues that got designated For Later:...

  Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China Trump administration sued over Chinese import tariffs The lawsuit was file...

 Really, I have nothing else.

Scout came into our lives on January 4, 2014 after we met him at an adoption event. While he very quickly settled in to life with Raven and ...

The post title is the first one I conceived for the re-launch of the blog, but Events Kept Occurring and I hadn't been able to organize ...

I have no idea where the current academic discussion stands, but even prior to my college and grad school experience in the Before Times the...

First of all, is every single goddamn famous quote apocryphal ?! More to the point, I am shocked - shocked! - that the Republicans are poise...

... Republicans could call this whole thing off if they wanted to. The point, as multiple people keep observing, is not whether the Republic...

In my previous update I alluded to future improvements to the engine terminal portion of the layout. For my 2025 FedEx Day project I was ab...

In my previous Fedex Day post I mentioned my goal of getting the 2024 presentation over to my home computer. That didn't quite work out...

The word of course being midterms , shorthand for the 2026 Congressional elections. We see and hear references to the midterms fairly frequ...