Oddball Observations

We did get our monsoon rain yesterday evening.  It was the first real pound-down rain of the summer so far.  It poured hard for probably 20 ...

Nguyen Cao Ky is dead.  According to the Los Angeles Times, the former South Vietnamese premier died at a hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...

This is a photograph of a man who might be a Hollywood actor, right?  Nice gentle flicker of a smile, eyes a bit wary.  Not wary enough, as...

First the important stuff.  Arizona shortstop Stephen Drew broke his ankle in last night's Diamondbacks game and is out for the season. ...

Sometimes one's best posts are merely referrals to those of another blogger.  Such is the case today as I encourage you to read and view...

My former colleague and long-time friend Tommy the C  sent a short e-mail today, gigging me a bit about my lack of posts of late.  So . . . ...