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I'm not generally one for premonitions, but I had a terrible premonition as I was driving in to work today. It's time for the terrib...

The nice thing is that I don't even have to say what particular incident caused me to write this. It could apply to several things in my...

Detroit suffered a double blow on Super Bowl Sunday: 1) The Detroit Lions spent their 49th consecutive year as Super Bowl spectators. Sigh...

Wow, two months since my last post?! What can I say? 2014 was a busy, busy year ... followed by an utter collapse into exhaustion. This,...

As some of you know, I grew a wee little beard this winter to help fend off the cold. Today, I went to the barbershop: Before Aft...

It's my first day back in my cubicle after my lovely two-week holiday staycation, so lunchtime seemed a good time to write down a few th...

I've been a neglectful blogger thus far in 2013, so I reckoned I'd at least put together a little post with some updates and a bit ...

... from my Facebook account today: John Magee  We're already seeing cloud bands and wind from Hurricane Sandy in Detroit. I sincere...

One of my Republican friends posted a link on my Facebook wall to this Fox News story ( US officials knew Libya attack was terrorism within ...

After a longish day and evening, I arrived home to discover that I had won one of the top raffle prizes at this year's " Taste of t...

Hurrah! After being reduced to an incommunicado mess by my broken and dislocated right ring finger, I am finally back to ten-fingered typin...

After a frenzy of posting in the first few months of this year, the last month turned into an unexpected posting desert.  Sorry to leave yo...

Howdy all, from sunny San Diego.  (Well, okay, from mostly foggy San Diego down here by the beach this time of year, but the sun came out f...

While perusing the New York Times this morning, I think Monique and I may have identified an opportunity for improvement in our efforts to k...

Okay, it's the final stretch of 2012 resolutions and forecasts.  Feel free to skip by this post if you're only here for the beagle ...