Fat in Indiana

The Olympics are finally over. I don’t mind admitting that I am glad. I found this biannual event less than entertaining. Perhaps it was the...

There was a hit and run over the weekend. A local teen was killed. Police are looking for a late model Chevy Cruze. This has to stop. This...

I studied French in high school. I had four years of it. I took advanced French in college, stupidly testing into higher levels to get credi...

After messing around on the interwebz yesterday morning I parked my old-man butt on the couch and hit the power on the universal remote. For...

Heavy rains are falling on the already water-logged soil this morning. The forecast calls for it to continue raining most of the day. In t...

A crazed terrorist uses a car or truck to mow down innocent people. Dozens are killed and wounded. It has happened many times worldwide. Yet...

It looks to be another soggy early spring/late winter day here in the heartland. It is Friday, and that is never a bad thing. Today marks ...

Mother Nature has been schizo here in the 21st Century. Sure, blame it on climate change, I don’t care. Yesterday we saw record-breaking tem...

Good morning blog readers. It is a wet warm day here at the old blogstead. Temperatures are slated to broach 70 today. Too bad it is raining...

OMG, we have to do something, so we should ban the scary-looking plastic semi-auto rifle used by the latest madman killer.  I don’t own one,...

I bought a new belt. It is brown leather. It was on sale for 50% off. I got it at Macy’s. The loop thingy that holds the extra belt leng...

Considerate. That is just one of many adjectives that have been used to describe me. Mostly used by me, but that is getting off topic. Appar...

It was in the mid-sixties temperature-wise yesterday, with intermittent rain. A typical spring day. Today, why highs in the thirties with sn...

Another stupid senseless school shooting. It was a gun-free zone, so let us not fool ourselves into believing more laws will change things. ...

The other night I was surfing through my TV channels looking for something to watch. I have 2,194 channels and nearly 19 of them are not hom...

Let me understand this . Graffiti artists spray paint on property they do not own. The guy who actually owns the property -- you know, the o...

If I can believe my bathroom scale, I weighed yesterday pretty much what I weighed in 1980 when I graduated high school. My bathroom scale i...

Let me get it out of the way. I may well be an uncouth, uncultured, redneck from a backwater, flyover state. Guilty, guilty, maybe, and yes....

In a reoccurring theme I woke up early again this morning. It becomes a cycle. I wake up around four or so, then by 10:30 at night I am exha...

I woke a little earlier than usual this morning. So it goes. Since I had some time, I perused the usual news sites. Man, this is going to ...