It’s Michigan Week, so I’m going to be a little distracted. Here’s how seriously I take this game: For the last three years, I’ve taken a vacation day on the day before the Michigan game because I’ve observed that I absolutely cannot get anything done. My bosses have noticed as well; they repeatedly give me… Read More hanalei mixed plate

The Wife and I thankfully skipped the Browns’ debacle against Baltimore in favor of seeing REM Sunday night at the AJ Palumbo Center on Duquesne’s campus. Here’s what we heard: Finest Worksong / Begin The Begin / The Wake-Up Bomb / Animal / Boy In The Well / Imitation Of Life / High Speed Train… Read More and this is what we do…

Got to put this election behind me. At least I have the Buckeyes and the Browns to fall back on. Oh. Yeah. That’s right. Shit.

Shit. See, I think … The president … At least Ohio didn’t … Shit.

Four years ago tonight, I was sitting in a hotel room in Erie, Pa., covering a federal trial for my paper. The trial — the prosecution of a guy accused of trying to kill a union leader and his family by pumping his house full of chlorine gas in the middle of the night —… Read More memories

Just think: If a little more than half of the voting population in each state is capable of rational thought, by this time tomorrow we’ll have a new president-elect. Not that we’re necessarily going to know that by this time tomorrow. We haven’t seen a spate of election-related lawsuits here in Pennsylvania … yet. Thirty… Read More scarier