Author: Our Man in Redmond

Reading Steve Gregory’s weather diary this morning over on Daily Kos, an idea struck me. It’s beautiful in its simplicity, it’s simply beautiful, it’ll help alleviate our dependency on oil, it’ll...

There are a lot of people out there who are saying that those who stayed behind in New Orleans in spite of the warnings to leave before Katrina hit are “stupid” and deserved their fate. I have two words for those...

Good morning, and welcome once again to Sunday Griot! I’m very glad to see you here safe and dry. Today’s story is a short one, and not the one I had hoped to tell today; but then they say that life is what happens...

So far I have resisted ranting about the tragedy in New Orleans. It’s about time I started. Alan Alda’s character on M*A*S*H once described his unit commander as “it’s like being on a burning ship and you...

Ah, good morning! Good morning, and welcome to Sunday Griot! I’m glad you could be here on such a rainy day. Warm yourself with some coffee and come have a seat. I almost feel bad that we can be so comfortable when things...