Wild Winds on Lake Ontario Today

It was only a few weeks ago that we were out at Lake Ontario, at Sodus Point. A storm front brought wicked winds and freezing rain this morning. WSYR has a terrific video of the high waves on Lake Ontario, check it out here.

Utica Riggie Fest

April is almost here (yeah, right) in Upstate New York! No, actually April seems like a million miles away…. but it’s never too early to plan for the official Utica Riggie Fest! The Hotel Utica has a traveler’s package running right now. They call it the “Epicurean Escape.” It looks like a real “feed your [...]

Slow As Molasses in January

I first encountered that phrase when I read Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, as a teenager. What a curious phrase! And what a curious book! I’d discovered the book in an old box– it was a hardcover “Hollywood” edition published in 1940. It had beautiful color pictures from the movie version, all in Technicolor! [...]

The Fourth Amendment Gets the Finger

Alarming information from AppleCore Hotels Blog: International visitors will experience soon a transition from a two-fingerprint scan to a ten-fingerprint collection standard. The Department of Homeland Security will be rolling out this system at all US ports of entry by the end of 2008, bur JFK Airport will begin collecting 10 fingerprint scans by the [...]

The Real War on Terror

“The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create–whatever the form of government–a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.” [...]

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