Bilbo's Random Thought Collection

The good news is that Agnes and I are home from our visit to Pittsburgh and the 40th anniversary reunion of the North Allegheny High School ...

Wildfires are burning again in California; a study by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center shows that about 47% of Americans pay no income ta...

Good morning from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! Agnes and I are here to visit my father and to attend the 40th reunion of my high school graduat...

President Obama has made his speech to the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen, advocating Chicago as the site of the 2016 Olympic...

I couldn't possibly pass up this CNN Health article online yesterday - Love, Pleasure, Duty: Why Women Have Sex . Heck, I know why women...

Now that the G20 Summit is over, my home town of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is gearing up for it's next challenge: this coming Saturday, t...

Between the end of the Vietnam War and the current unpleasantness in Iraq and Afghanistan, generals - the senior leaders of the armed servic...

You may recall that former First Lady (now Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton once blamed many of the problems facing her husband as the ma...

Yes, I know...today's post is going up much later than normal. Live with it. We were out very late last night at a great birthday part...

The circus must be in town, as Mohammar Gadhafi and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad took time out from their clown act to perform at the United Nation...