by Heather Brandon | May 2, 2007 | Urban Compass
As Mike Cass and I toured the city’s "dirty dozen" sites last Saturday during Keep Springfield Beautiful’s citywide cleanup, we passed a work crew of inmates from the Hampden County Correctional Center as they purged trash from Rifle Street and...
by Frank Dodge | May 2, 2007 | The Dodge Report
Today I bot 2 gallons of chainsaw gas and since I had a salt tooth, which is different than a sweet tooth, i figgered i wld get some potato chips b/c I will tell you something: I do not like the way these gas stations put dog biscuits in little baskets on the checkout...
by James Heflin | May 2, 2007 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Sometimes you catch a glimpse of the world outside the handbasket. This image just made me happy. It’s tiresome to have to waste so much perfectly good brainpower on counteracting a bunch of criminals who want to destroy life, liberty and happiness for all but...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 2, 2007 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
The picture above, of the melancholy-looking pregnant woman, is of my wife Jessica, who’s due with our first child, a girl-child, on May 23. I’m posting it for two reasons. The first is that I think it’s cute. She hasn’t had the easiest...