My 8-year-old is a huge fan of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series of books so we, of course, had to attend the opening weekend of the new Percy Jackson film. It was OK, there are some variations from the book but that’s to be expected in a translation to film. Parents should get [...]

Many of you have already found it, but those who haven’t need to check out Andrew Johnson’s letter to the editor. It has everything you’d want in a letter —liberals labeled socialists, criticisms of people who had just lost everything in the New Orleans flood, a Helen Keller reference. It’s as good as it gets.

Hello, I’m back from the technical abyss. We underwent a major Web site redesign last week and in the transition the link to my blog was disabled, perhaps by terrorists. But I’m back now. Anyway, I was trying to think this weekend of movies to rent with an Olympic sport theme and the first one [...]

One of my intentions with this blog was to give readers a behind the scenes look at what goes into the creation of the Nation of Mike column each week. So, without further fanfare, a look behind the curtain this week reveals — nothing. That’s right, I don’t have an idea at this moment (precisely [...]

Every week I read the home feature in the Seattle Time’s Pacific Northwest magazine section just to get outraged at the obscene excess on display, but I was in a for a special treat this week. The featured home belongs to Sapphire Skies’ Sean Northrop. I should say, it is a lovely home. But what [...]

Sometimes I’ll be reading along and something we just hit me as possibly the most interesting thing I’ve ever read. It doesn’t have to be much, it can be a sentence. I had such an experience this morning when reading an Associated Press story out of Garfield-Palouse High School. To give you some context, the [...]

I read this weekend that Tom Brookshier died. Brookshier was a star in the NFL in the 1950s and 60s, but to me was best known for co-hosting “This Week in Pro Football” with Pat Summerall. In the dark days prior to ESPN, “This Week in Pro Football” was the only way to see highlights [...]