Saturday's Big Sweep was a huge success. I volunteered with the Sierra Club at Latta Plantation to clean up the shores of Mountain Island Lake. Our group of six took a boat ride to the lake shore near McDowell Creek Cove. Within an hour and a hal...

I decided to take a day or two to review the vice presidential debate by myself, sans talking heads and their immediate auto-dissection. I was also too irritated with Palin to do anything but bitch. (I spent half of the debate yelling at the T.V., &q...

There are crappy journalists in our world and there are excellent journalists in our world. Gwen Ifill is one of the best journalists there is and she is, hands down, the best choice for the Vice Presidential debate-- a debate she also moderated...