…or media-speak, “officer-involved shootings.” But these don’t include choking, taser, or blunt force trauma deaths. In any event, deaths...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has named a barracks after General Benjamin O. Davis, ’32, the second African American to...

For the first time in about ten years, we visited Ashland, Oregon and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. We enjoyed two Shakespeare plays,...

Congressman Adam Schiff (D., California) has been named by minority leader Pelosi to participate in the most recent inquiry into the...

The indictments of Chinese People’s Liberation Army officers by the United States for stealing industrial secrets suggests that there is...

I saw the first episode of the first season of Game of Thrones As of this writing I have finished Episode 8 of Season 2. Or is it Episode...

I note with some concern a series of stories about the Nevada rancher locked in a struggle with the U.S. Government over his payments for...

The crisis in Ukraine over Crimea has launched news producers into warp drive to find analysts, commenters, commentators, talking heads,...

I looked back and realized that I did not finish my adventure with my new Roku box. To replay, I ordered a Roku 3 to replace the Roku so...

I learned how to follow topics with the use of hashtags. In this case #Crimea will bring up every tweet involving the crisis between...

I’m not going to quit Twitter, but I doubt that I will spend time tweeting nor will I assemble a following. I can get all the important...

I am experimenting with Twitter. I don’t have a particular need for tweeting, but I felt compelled to learn more after an emergency in...

Remember when, for two weeks in December, the truck pulled up in front of the house to deliver that package from the grandparents?  That...

I often consider what normal features of daily life would be incomprehensible 20 or even 10 years ago – smart phones, tablets, online...

I attended the funeral of my cousin Al in Colville, a small town in northeast Washington. Colville is in the mountains not far from what...