Osler's Razor

  The latest invasive species we are facing here in the US is the European Green Crab, which has recently expanded to the West Coast . Appar...

  I went to the pretty thrilling Detroit Lions/New Orleans Saints game last Sunday, which Detroit won. All in all, it was a good weekend for...

  There were three great poems this week. Des, WHAT? Really? I did not know this: Who knew it’s a “p” and not an “f”? Big, fluffy SnuffleuPa...

  For my sermon this morning, the liturgical reading (Matthew 18:21-35) is about forgiveness-- right up my alley! The Minister asked me if I...

  So, if you were thinking "How can I hear Mark Osler blather about stuff this weekend?" (which no one was, probably), you have th...

  Most of us alive in this country at this point grew up with some input from the Muppets. Let's haiku about them this week! Here, I wil...

  I'm not sure why, but the BlogGods are not letting me post pictures right now. But.... do you really want to see a picture of the Repu...

  Yesterday, the lawyer for Lindsay Clancy, whose jury was hung in her recent Massachusetts murder trial, announced that he would seek a par...

Yesterday was the last day of the State Fair, which is a big deal here in Minnesota-- pretty much the whole state shows up for some part of ...

  It wasn't the volume we saw last week, but there were some great haiku this week (including one involving Danskins, which I hadn't...

  In such a crowded world, wilderness is a luxury. When managed well, though, it is a luxury available to all, and that is something too rar...

 

  We all wear shirts (or at least most of us do). So probably you have a favorite! Whether its in your closet or just in your memory, let...

  I have a lovely view from my 4th floor office at work, looking over the downtown area of Minneapolis.  Yesterday, I rode my bike into work...

  I've learned more about Dolly Parton in the last week than I expected, and I'm glad for all of it. She had three attributes that a...

  And last Saturday, my alma mater of William and Mary was down by 10 with 53 seconds left... and somehow won without overtime! This could b...

  Wow! Quite an outpouring of poems on place names this week! More than anyone, we had great output from Jill Scoggins, who explained it thi...

  As some of you know, my best friend for the past four decades, IPLawGuy, is facing some health challenges. He has an inoperable glioblasto...

 

  Here in Minnesota, we seem to specialize in goofy place names-- people don't even seem to notice, for example, if you mention the town...