Shopping.

So, as I said, I was down in the outskirts of Chicago yesterday shopping. I can't help it, but I like the Oakbrook Center , with its nic...

Breastfeeding.

I barely, but polarly, posted yesterday. I took a long drive down to the outskirts of Chicago to do some shopping. That means I was in no po...

Now I'm never going to Iqaluit.

I'm having none of it until they rehire Polar Penny ! (Via Metafilter .) Here's the blog .

A cipher who went to Vietnam.

Our local public sociologist Jeremy is taking me to task for raising the indelicate question of whether John Kerry is really as smart as he...

Mistaken hawk.

My falcon turned out to be a hawk. NOTE: That's not my photograph of the hawk that lives in my yard. I didn't get a clear photo yet...

Readers respond re "Is Kerry Smart"?

My post yesterday " Is Kerry Smart? Is Kerry a war hero? " has brought a lot of email. Rather than clutter up that post with more ...

Readers respond re: "Is Kerry a war hero?"

Yesterday, I wrote that I didn't think much of the new assertions that Kerry was not a war hero on the theory that if the assertions we...