Boardman Country

In answer to the question in the title, let me quickly say that I DO NOT KNOW.

So first we need to define “carnival.” No, not Canaveral…Carnival!

Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum;
a time of riotous excess.

Apparently, the folks over at TechTreak are given to things like merrymaking, feasting, masquerading and riotous excess all within the bounds of… Read more…

Some of you may be aware of my love for a true literary great, Patrick F. McManus, author of, among many other McManus classics, A Fine and Pleasant Misery.

I first became aware of this Master of the Understatement back in about 1990.

I had just signed in for my shift at Community Transit, where that day I was to “sit report.” Since the transit industry runs everything by the minute in its attempt at keeping buses on time, they actually pay drivers to come in and wait for other drivers to not show up for work. If a scheduled driver doesn’t show up, the report driver goes out and drives the miscreants piece of work. These paid lallygaggers are called “report drivers” and that day in 1990 I was one of them.

I had just signed in and walked into the Driver’s Lounge, ready to assume my usual position on the couch, when Read more…

Does it really take rocket science to realize that while we’re trying to figure out how to cool down the planet we still have to function?

Anyone who’s read much of Boardman Country realizes that I am not a participant in the Global Warming Scam. On the contrary, I’m stomping down the biggest carbon footprint possible without straining myself.

That doesn’t mean I deny that global temperatures rise…and fall (and by the way, they’ve been falling more than rising recently, especially here). I simply don’t buy into Read more…