TIME CAPSULE 2000—I MERELY CALL IT HOME
KELLY SASSO OF WTAE PITTSBURGH REPORTS “Western Pennsylvania Students Amazed By What’s Inside Time Capsule From 2000,” WTAE 4 ABC, January 8, 2026: “Students in the Hempfield Area School District … Continue reading
A QUEENS FELON AND THE LAW
IN A LATEST OF LEGAL ACTIONS, “FBI Searches Atlanta Election Office, Chasing Trump 2020 Vote Fraud Claims,” Reuters, January 28, 2026, Jana Winter and Andrew Goudsward report, “Fulton County Commissioner … Continue reading
HMS TRIALS REPLICA
“ROVING CORRESPONDENT ROGER T. PATTERSON tests one of Britain’s rarest cars” reads the subtitle of this R&T September 1959 road test. I cannot speak to the whereabouts (or whoabouts) of … Continue reading
EPA = ECONOMIC PROTECTION AGENCY
IN A TYPICAL TRUMP MIDDLE FINGER TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, the hitherto “Environmental Protection Agency Has Stopped Estimating the Dollar Value of Lives Saved in the Cost-Benefit Analyses for New … Continue reading
WHA’CHA’ CALL IT? AND WHERE Y’AT?
WE ARE AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATION, SORTA. But our regional dialects and slang are entertaining too. I’ve written about this from time to time. And recently I came upon The American … Continue reading
AN INSIGNIFICANT CHANGE? PART 2
YESTERDAY WE SHARED TIM MCPHILIPS’S PBS NEWS article “How This New Mail Rule Could Affect Your Ballot, Your Tax Return and More.” Today in Part 2, we begin with some USPS … Continue reading
AN INSIGNIFICANT CHANGE? PART 1
IT MAY SEEM PETTY TO CAVIL ABOUT A SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT CHANGE in postmark regulations, but there’s good reason to suspect Trump and his intentions. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 … Continue reading
NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN….
TOGETHER WITH MY LOVE OF CLASSIC AUTOMOBILES (and reading about them in my fav Brit Classic & Sports Cars), I continue to admire and respect Automotive News. I’m never too … Continue reading
A NEW RESEARCH MENTOR
THERE ARE THOSE WHO ADVISE THAT I’m beyond the age of adopting a mentor, but Edward Brooke-Hitching is certainly in the running. This, I note, arose from Susannah Clapp’s “Not … Continue reading
WHY DO I THINK OF A PETULANT PUERILE MOBSTER?
THANKS TO SiriusXM “Radio Classics” and Turner Movie Classics, I am not without knowledge about gangster portrayals of yore. Perhaps you know the type: amoral to an extreme, full of … Continue reading
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