friend of the built environment

Hmmm… The Charlotte Observer should try a little harder to customize their php template. It’s obviously the same one 365Gay uses. The fact that even fairly large commercial sites are using out-of-the-box content management systems with little customizing is telling about how much they feel like investing in their web design…

A fixture from my childhood will soon be no more. I used to eat these little animal frosties by the handful. They were the most ubiquitous cookies found around family homes in my social circles and those of my parents. Inevitably someone would bring them to class whenever it was treat day. I will miss [...]

Who would’ve thought a crotchety curmudgeon like me deserved to have spent the last seven years of his life with the most amazing guy on earth?

I love you, baby.

But with reservations.
As others have said, the Democrats don’t exactly offer a solid set of cohesive policy positions that are materially different from the Republicans. Both parties are pretty much meaningless wafflers with nothing to show from eight years of leadership (the Republicans) or eight years of prior peace and prosperity (the Clinton Democrats).
I voted [...]

These ads are rich.
The only two arguments being made by the Yes on 8 people are 1) Half the California Supreme Court should not have been allowed to override half the California electorate (by declaring Prop 22 illegal, a ballot measure which received about the same margin of ‘yes’ vote as the May Supreme Court [...]

A few things I’ve learned in the past couple months of living in California (whilst not being a resident)…
First, I assume this is what foreign workers feel like when they go to work in a land in which they are not citizens, to some extent. I was able to vote in the Presidential election, but [...]

…Mr Obama in that respect is a gamble. But the same goes for Mr McCain on at least as many counts, not least the possibility of President Palin. And this cannot be another election where the choice is based merely on fear. In terms of painting a brighter future for America and the world, Mr [...]