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Here comes the smog

Let’s starting cleaning up our air.   The valley creates a condition where the pollution stays during the winter unless blown out by a storm.  We drove up above it to feel a little better, and it was great.  Fortunately, it only lasts a few days and usually is blown out by a storm which [...]

Goooooooooooooooal! Congratulations Real Salt Lake!!!! Video Courtesy of KSL.com ESPN headlines run: “RSL [Real Salt Lake] stuns Galaxy…” CNN calls it a “Monumental upset.” Real Salt Lake sister team is Real Madrid (Spain).  David Beckham (when he played for Real Madrid) came to play Real Salt Lake in one of their first seasons as part [...]

Do you remember the fall of the Berlin Wall? What an emotional event as we watched on television and in pictures! Today, November 9, 2009 we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. I remember watching the images and the joy of the people of Berlin as the wall came down.  One [...]

Rudy, 34 years ago

It’s true, I had never seen the movie Rudy until this past Thursday. You, know, football movies are all pretty much the same. “Rudy” is different; it’s better. I enjoyed watching the movie and then watching the special features. Someone posted some of the special features on YouTube. It’s amazing that the story and the [...]

Shark Week 2009

As you may have heard (or have been anticipating all summer), this week is Shark Week, the Discovery Channel’s week-long, annual focus on the beasts from the deep. So why the interest in these deadly predators from someone who never, ever wants to see one in the wild? Well, one can be interested in atomic [...]