I want to rewind for a moment to Monday's post . To recap, a recent Gallup poll reveals that 49% of Americans believe that the federal...

Gallup just released the results of a poll conducted earlier this month and, depending on one's point of view, " Americans Express...

Starry-eyed college students, especially politically active ones, are known for their ignorant idealism. The Berkeley College Republicans , ...

The KintlaLake household has a rooting interest in both of our town's high schools -- we live in the shadow of one and our 16-year-old a...

Elizabeth Warren, former assistant to President Barack Obama, wants to be the Democratic Party's nominee for the U.S. Senate seat long h...

My new shipping-and-receiving job is going fine, thank you very much. On September 2nd I mentioned using the opportunity to justify buying ...

While Mrs. KintlaLake was out of town on business early this week, I gathered two dozen ripe Roma tomatoes, cut them into quarter-inch slic...

In the interest of full disclosure, I skipped last night's CNN-Tea Party Republican Debate in favor of Monday Night Football . I have, ...

On a day filled with poignant remembrances, the performance at Ground Zero this morning by an elderly Paul Simon -- arguably the quintesse...

In today's edition of The Columbus Dispatch , many of the regular Sunday comics commemorate, in one way or another, the tenth anniversar...

Today, ten years on, I touch the memory of ordinary lives and extraordinary bravery. It's a day for honoring those who serve my communi...

Our volunteer gourd vines started dying back a couple of weeks ago, and I finally got 'round to harvesting what they left behind. Th...

Yesterday's noon kickoff had Mrs. KintlaLake and me arriving on the Ohio State campus around 9am. Once there we strolled north along Nei...

More than two dozen tomatoes, harvested from the garden yesterday morning, finish ripening on stone windowsills in our kitchen. Over in the...

Okay, so you think that "Chevy Runs Deep" commercial is sappy or cliché and yeah, maybe the acting won't win any prizes. Bu...

While waiting for the younger spawn to emerge from school on the first day of classes yesterday, I heard Rush Limbaugh nonsensically connec...

Here's a page torn from my sketchpad -- a simple image , massaged a bit in Photoshop, becomes an appealing desktop background.

My wife and I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to drop in on the annual Reynoldsburg Tomato Festival last night. It was no coincidence th...