The upside of swine flu

Because the doc says I have flu, and the CDC says 99% of flu right now is the swine version, I can with some unpleasant confidence say that, hooboy, I seem to have got the stuff! I'm happy to report that all seems well after 3 days (one of them an absolute...

Rooke Ratchets Up Federal Building Fight

“I am at a level of frustration that I have never experienced before in all the years that I have been allowed to serve on the City Council,” Tim Rooke wrote in a recent email to a group of reporters who cover Springfield. That’s saying a lot. Rooke...

The Childless Woman UPDATE

Us humans tend to praise motherhood. Even on this site, my fellow-blogger Sarah Buttenweiser writes a mommy-centric blog, complete with personal essays about the trials and tribulations modern mothers in the modern world face from breastfeeding to playground...