Ran into a technical writing problem in the wild this morning. Well, part of it may be a design problem. But I think I can safely shoehorn t...

I possess very little mechanical aptitude. I can use tools and such, but if you asked me to put something mechanical together (unless it has...

Every time I have an annual job performance review, I tell a lie. The question comes: Where do you see yourself in five years? Pat answer: W...

  With effortless ease, he pushed the plane along the plank. Curls of wood, matching his blond tresses, spilled onto the floor with each swo...

 ‘Fill the cup, and fill the can:     Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man,     Every moment one is born. Thus wrote the po...

Truth is messy. Actually, what Alexandr Solzhenitsyn says is “[T]ruth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.” Solzhenitsyn, a R...

Tuesday's primary elections brought some interesting results here in Idaho: Bad news for incumbents, and bad news for the right wing of...

One of the best descriptions of current-day Gen Xers came in a review of "Bill and Ted Face the Music" at Slate , and I think it f...

So this happened. For those unwilling to click on links: A young author -- they're almost always young authors -- wrote an essay explai...

So Saturday was to see me remove the last item from my Worry Box. A Worry Box, of course, is where you put your worries, ostensibly so you c...