Yeah, if the Va. & Md. officials want to see how big city transportation is done, they should London, Frankfort, Munich, or just about any European city. London, which does also have its own problems, has built 3 whole new lines, about 50 (guessing) stations, and 2 airports (I think) in the time the WMATA built (or…

If I travel 300 mi to see someone or whatever, where do I get a re-charge? Or if I need to drive 1000 mi to see relatives (that I can only stand being around every couple of years), where do I re-charge on the trip from say Washington, DC to KC, MO? What if I run out of juice at mile 310 because I wasn’t paying…

Baseball is making more money than it ever has before. There is really no issue other than owner greed. Really. All the rest is fake news at best.

I like books by intelligent and thoughtful authors, such as Brin, Hamilton, and (an author new to me) Rachel Aaron. I prefer any comics I read to be by similar authors. The Vertigo group did the Fables series of comics, which I very much enjoyed. Very nicely done with little soap opera. I would very much enjoy…

I popped popcorn in a kettle on a stove for more years than I care to admit (50+). My daughter bought me a plastic microwave popcorn popper for Christmas. I didn’t expect to like it, but the popcorn is great. (Just melt some butter in the same microwave after the popping.) So easy, and little mess. I am sold. (I won’t…

Thanks. It’s only “weird” to someone so very ignorant about the subject like me so definitely a poor choice of words on my part. I guess I was just wondering if testosterone levels were any sort of predictor for athletic success. Clearly, the subject is way more complicated than that. What people will do for “success”…

Are men tested for testosterone? If so, has there ever been found any correlation between testosterone level and level of performance, relative to the event? The whole concept of testosterone correlating to performance (no pun intended) seems a bit weird. It sure does not make sense to me that women could (or ever…

Apparently, there are 2 Sweetwater “breweries”. I put the term in quotes as the Sweetwater Tavern in Centreville, VA has a craft brewery in the restaurant and makes quite excellent beer there. (Some of my favorite.)

I do wish you were correct, but I remember thinking something similar when I was a teen in high school. I graduated from HS in 1970. Good Luck, really. But, sadly, money has always brought the “lawmakers” to their knees and always will.

Fragolino!! We had some on a tour in Italy about 10 years ago and could not find or get strawberry wine in the USA, until recently. Just ordered some, actually. Hope it’s as good as our memory of it.

From Ryan Zimmerman’s quote on ESPN:

Yeah, and they learned all of that from the Christians, the most barbaric “civilization” in all of history. Well, so far.

Having lived in Germany for 3 years, I would not go back for the food. Beer? Yes. Food. no. So, if you want spaetzle (or close enough for me), take the above recipe and remove any and all flavor, flavorings, spices, or anything resembling a spice. Then cook. Add a beer in a stein and you are good to go. (Then again,…

I think this is a “pendulum” move on the part of the owners. Since the day that players could be become free agents (1976), there has been the problem of older players playing awful (batting less than .225, etc.) and mgmt thinking that they were stuck with this guy until his contract runs out. (Ignoring the fact that…

I went to a doctor’s office which had “I love Lucy” reruns. Didn’t mind the wait there. Might work for restaurants and pubs, too.

Scooters need to be treated like rental cars. You should get your credit card charged until you turn it back in to the proper station. Until that happens, I hope that they get banned. 

I am firmly in the camp of both sides. Since forever, when veteran players (of any age), getting paid a lot (since the 90's anyway), with great “track records”, start doing poorly, for an extended period of time, say batting below .250, the kid in the minors kicking butt just sat there as the manager was either too…

Well, I am old, too, and easily pleased, also but, um, what was the question, again? This stuff is great fun!

This is such a great article. All ideas of “race” are complete constructs of convenience and are complete hogwash. There is no “black” and there is no “white”. People who hated everyone outside of their “tribe” (and often in it) just use this sort of “idea” to foster more hate. Thousands of years of wars proves that…

Japan is cool, but this is just too much for any westerner (lazy me). This is like western teenagers on steroids. I would guess that every country has its flavor of this sort of thing, if you look close enough. For example, the USA’s culture of ‘masculinity’ has definite rules on how males should act (outside of the do…