It doesn’t have to be beautiful and shiny, but I’d rather not have to cook with a tray that looks like it’s been broiling on a backyard grill for three years. An overnight soak with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide and fifteen minutes of elbow grease can make the worst of them into something you’re not afraid of.

Not quite yet, but soon it’ll be tomato seedlings under a grow light.

I used to drive across Arkansas once a year on a very regular schedule. The public radio (not National Public Radio) station out of Little Rock ran a progression of hour long shows as I was usually driving: An hour of Reggae, a Bluegrass/Gospel hour, and an hour of Delta Blues. The Reggae guys would play twenty…

Well over half of these films have been on regular TV in the past week. They’re not forgotten, they’re just not talked about, a couple of them for very specific reasons.

Meltdown.

OK, gyroscopes are cool, but that’s using an awful lot of energy just to stay upright.

I was once hired to create a professional website for a member of the Texas State Board of Education’s schoolbook selection committee. During the discovery process, we learned that she wanted to use the site to publicly argue for teaching creationism, the eradication of evolution, discrediting climate science and the…

He doesn’t get out much.

Yep, stay in quiet and distant if bison or elk are near: they are accustomed to tourists and traffic, and they seem quiet, placid and genial UNTIL THEY AREN’T. You do NOT want to be the exception. In the offseason I saw several STUPID STUPID people trying to take bison selfies, which meant they went way too close and…

Rent a house near the park and drive in early. It’s not hard (and not very expensive) to rent a nice house within half an hour of the west entrance. Visit at the beginning or end of the tourist season, not the peak of summer. In mid September, we went from T-shirt weather to a modest snowfall back to T-shirt weather…

I’m concerned about the kids, but does a random Senator from Oregon have any authority over the facility or the program? If not, he’s a tourist, just like you or I would be. To just show up and expect to magically open all doors is an exercise in arrogance, just like the actions of most politicians. HE WANTED A…

Now that’s an awfully polite way to describe the governor and his staff.

“I remember that just because somebody framed a newspaper clipping for my office wall.”

Well, it’s apparently been a busy day for the bastard. Before the deregulation signing, he telegraphed the Jobs report an hour before it’s release, so that all his rich friends could get a jump on the market, then he spent the morning tweeting about the lowest jobless rate since 2000 (conveniently forgetting to…

“My Favorite Year” remains one of my favorite films.

Commemorate pens (over $120 apiece), “promise” coins (with his image and no EPA logo), jeez what an ego.

Batman & Robin: Uma Thurman is the only one who isn’t there to merely pick up a check.

Yes. Yes, it was. All part of The Master Plan™.

Ken Starr spent 70 million on Bill Clinton’s blowjob, Congress has spent over 100 million on Hillary over the years. I’d say he still has some leeway.

“polite” society is not who is welcoming him back.