Welcome to my little Nerdery on the Net! :)

(This is a variation on a comment I'd made on a YouTube video by "The Hockey Guy" where he referenced the Ivan Provorov controversy. Mr Speaker, I'd like unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks... :) ) "Hockey is for Everyone is the umbrella initiative under which the League encourages clubs to celebrate the diversity that exists in their respective markets, and to work to achieve more welcoming and inclusive environments for all fans.…

The following letter to my father was written several months ago whilst I was visiting with him at Arlington National Cemetery on a gorgeous August morning. There's something about that spot about half way down Section 76 that is peaceful and inspiring as I was reflecting on the past few days spent on walkabout in Washington DC and about to head toward the Outer Banks to collect the kids, Mistletoe, and likely a fair heap…

Are you flipping kidding me? I'm still trying to wrap my head round more classified documents being found where they ought not to be and in the possession of people who clearly should have known better! Apparently these documents were found in an office used by President Biden prior to his election when he was a member of a Washington think tank (now that's an oxymoron if I've ever heard one and having grown up…

That motto emblazoned proudly across the Brazilian national flag means "order and progress" but the scenes from Brasilia were anything but as supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro laid siege to the Congress building, the Presidential Palace, and the Supreme Court and wreaked havoc destroying everything they could get their hands on. Among other conspiracy theories, these vandals claimed that widespread election fraud was why Bolsonaro lost to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in…

Just as I'm about to extricate myself from the recliner and do the washing up of the popcorn bowl (well, if the Republicans are going to accuse people of eating the popcorn as they watch the show... ;) ) before heading upstairs for an exceptionally early bedtime for me, I can hear a commotion coming from the TV that's still tuned to C-SPAN. The motion to adjourn has been proceeding quickly to an expected 218-216…

I wish I could tell you the 13th vote for Speaker was meaningful but....no. Not surprisingly, the motion to adjourn until 2200 was met with very little resistance and the members are off to the meetings to try to find the way forward to finally elect Representative Kevin McCarthy to the Speaker's chair or give him a nice length of rope that he can give himself the Phil Connors way out of his purgatory. It…