This week's battered pickup has returned from the field. Here's what it brings us (I'm sneaking in unmarked UPDATES as I find them, so keep checking back) : Obamolaters scoff and sneer when we call them, well, Obamolaters. But according new Harris interactive poll asked 2,634 Americans who they admi...

Help me decorate my 1920s craftsman bungalow dining room. I have my grandmothers kinda beat up table, hutch and buffet from the 1940s. They are veneer medium wood and either need to go or need paint. I donated the chairs because they were rickety and not comfy. I would like to have a dining room tha...

Well, children, I've been hunting and gathering for you all week, and I have a bushel-full. This actually may just be The Best Hither And Thither, Ever. Tell a friend. Seriously. Let's get going: Turns out not all Britons are enamored with our newly-anointed president. Among other things, Gerald War...

Surprise surprise.  Shuttle is the moniker-of-choice for Passion Pit knob-tweaker Etan, whose Washington, DC and Boston-bred eclecticism completely shine through in the genre-less, wide-scoped work he's put out (credits including commissioned work for The DeathSet, Daedalus and The Little Ones) thu...

I was not sure if I'd be able to do Restaurant Week this year, time and money wise, but I did manage to get around to it. So I asked my friend Eric if he and his better half would like to go to Red Maple. I wanted to try it out since the chef - Jill Snyder - is now locally famous. Fortunately for us...

The presidential inauguration ceremony on Tuesday will begin and end with prayers from two men whom Barack Obama considers role models, advisers and dear friends. One, Joseph Lowery, is an 87-year-old black liberal Methodist from the Deep South who spent his career fighting for civil rights. The......

It's been awhile, so... here we go: Darn well time somebody did "this"! So you, like me, get inundated with these "Dear One In Christ"-type spams, telling you of this great inheritance you have, contact immediately, blah blah blah. And you think "Yeah, right. Who falls for this?" Sadly, now we know ...

The first three tie for top place in different ways. The rest are in no particular order. Fatherly Happiness I: one of the great grand highlights of the year was being able to attend my dear and only daughter's graduation, with a Master's degree, from Middlebury College in Vermont. I'm very proud of...

And so... The One's Education Secretary-designate says, "I teached kidz to talk English reel gud!" Well, not really; but the school system administered by Arne Duncan since 2001, testing for 2007 revealed that only 17 percent of eighth graders read at or above grade level. Clearly this is the sort o...

And now... this! Best headline of last week? " Man sprays 'toilet-papering' teens with fox urine ." Now, reading that, what is the first question that comes to your mind? Me too: how did he come by this substance? Furnishing further proof that the MSM doesn't think as we do, that question doesn't co...