Unqualified Offerings

First, thank you so much to Washington’s Channel 9 for subjecting its viewers to an interconference game played by Baltimore’s lameass football team instead of letting us watch New England lay one more cobblestone on the Road to History. That would be Baltimore, the completely different city from Washington, DC.
Second, the next cobblestone comes Saturday [...]

1. What the hell is there to do in Dekalb Illinois between but not including Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve?
2. Any advice for coping with Chicagoland traffic coming from way east and somewhat south of the area? (Starting from Maryland, in other words.)

By Thoreau
Try selling Christmas trees in Iraq.
Still not as bad as Santa’s job, though.  If he tries to make any deliveries in Iraq it’s likely that he’ll be identified as a hostile aircraft and shot down.

By Thoreau
The latest LA Times has a profile of an Iranian dissident who had spent time in an infamous prison. Three things leap out. None of these things are new, not even to me, but they are important, and so worth reinforcing again and again.
1) They fear him. Though they have [...]