The health care reform drum beat in Congress moves forward at the pace and feel of a dirge. Now Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid says there may not be a vote on the Senate bill until 2010. House Leader Nancy Pelosi expects a vote on the merged House...

I doubt what has happened to the “pursuit of happiness” in recent years is what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he wrote the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Happiness has become a research industry, being poked and prodded, dissected and...

Virginia DeBolt (bio) writes the bi-weekly Elder Geek column for Time Goes By in which she takes the mystery out of techie things all bloggers and internet users need to know to simplify computer use. She has written several books on technology and...

Well, THAT was a surprise. On Sunday at about noon (well, not, as you will see), after having been up and about since what I thought was 4:30AM, I discovered all the clocks in the house were wrong. I hadn't noticed the time on the computer, which...

You never know who you're going to meet on the internet and I came to know Peter Tibbles (bio here) via email over the past couple of years. His extensive knowledge of most genres of music and his excellent taste became apparent only gradually (Peter's...