My insurance company came over to evaluate my new garage and became extremely cranky over the fact that I was rebuilding my back porch. At the time, the porch didn’t have any railings. But the door leading to the porch was locked, and you needed a key to open the door, so nobody would get hurt.

I have lots of other problems with Mike Pence, but in my opinion, he did what he was supposed to do, and he probably knew as he did it that it would tank his political career.

Anyplace is no place to go off-roading in a Chevy Malibu.

Geronimo overstepped and got fired. Was it the first time he overstepped? No. Was it the first time he was fired? No. One interesting thing about being air talent on radio is you can say anything at least once. TV, even live TV, is much more controlled.

understandable mistake since the article says she ran for Congress.  The article is a kind of understandable mistake too, since the lower house of the NC state legislature is also called the House of Representatives.  But I think someone who writes for this website ought to know the distinction.

My neighbor planted a young blue spruce a couple of feet from my driveway.  Don’t do that!

I presume there will be no talking in the disciplinary centers, so why fire the librarians?

Having the bottled sauces is a deal, true. But there’s still a good use for the packets too. If you’re going camping alone, with family or with a scout troop, a handful of those packets weigh a lot less than one or more bottles of sauce.

Why is it the only alien intelligence to ever attempt to meet with world leaders and nobel-prize-winning scientists was Klaatu back in 1951? All the others seem to reveal themselves to people nobody would ever believe.

Fence pliers are great for pulling staples, but they also incorporate a small hammer for driving fence staples.

Magnetic recording tape isn’t the best possible archival medium.  It’s also a lot without knowing what base the tapes were recorded on, if they were stored in good conditions, whether they’ve been played.  But they would be cool to have and if I won Mega Millions tonight, I’d consider bidding and bequeathing them to a…

Right you are. Or the actual clip.

Years ago, I used two pieces of electrical conduit put together with the connector for the purpose, each conduit bent at a right angle, and hung netting on that framework. This worked for any climbing garden plants.  The problem I had was finding netting locally that would work.  It was before the internet.  With your…

In accounting, a difference too small to matter is called immaterial. The difference between 1 in 292.2 million and 0 in 292.2 million is immaterial. Another way to look at the odds is if you had 292.2 million gallons of distilled water (about 8 pounds a gallon) and you added 8 pounds of salt, you’d still have…

When I was a kid, all the adults I knew in New York said Jersey drivers were the worst.  Not true!  Jersey drivers aren’t any worse than anywhere else.  They’re just befuddled because they’re looking for a place to turn left.

Where I live there’s a property transfer tax. It isn’t terribly expensive. S0, some people over-pay that tax to inflate their apparent net worth. Therefore, you can’t depend just on the reported sale price to set taxable value.

All state laws are different. In NY, if the school district line comes through your house (not the property, the house) you can switch school districts (only once) either when you buy the house or when you first send children to school.  The law used to say you could switch every year.

Proof read your deed. When I bought the house I live in now, there was a typo in the first deed I received from the seller’s lawyer. It would have moved my entire purchase 1.2 inches south. That would mean I hadn’t purchased the northern most 1.2 inches of the property and further that I had bought 1.2 inches of the…

How many people currently consider Kennedy a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination?  If his name wan’t Kennedy, would anyone?

Where I live, speed limits on local streets are largely suggestions and on limited access highways, they don’t even rise to that level. If I drive at the speed limit around here, I’m afraid of getting rear-ended.