Deaf Dogs and Benevolent Gnomes

The flooding conversation continues here in North Dakota.  Heavy winter snows and high moisture content in the ground prior to it freezing i...

A quick catch up.  Last Friday Alycia and I tagged along with her folks to the UND Fighting Sioux hockey game.  I'd been to the home ope...

Potatoes are very important here in North Dakota, that's a given.  You knew that.  But I never knew that they were treated similarly to ...

Unless you're from the Chicago area, or a close follower of Roger Ebert, you may not know much about him since he disappeared from the f...

A very interesting article from the upcoming issue of The Atlantic.  A food writer explores Wal Marts' attempts to enter the local and o...

OK, so I sort of promised not to tell any more tales of snow and woe.  Though there's not really any woe connnected with the snow we get...

If you have 15 minutes, here's an interesting article from The Nation on how we could reclaim our democracy from the grip of pervasive g...

Hello there faithful followers.  We've gone through another quiet period on the blog for a few reasons, mostly a combination of mild wri...