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Thanks to Brad for sending this Day by Day cartoon along.
To borrow a phrase from Instapundit: Heh.

Am back home after a week on the road for the book tour. While I was gone, my son sprouted two more teeth and learned to pull himself up in his crib and my daughter learned to do the hula hoop.
As I started sifting through e-mail and catching up with the blogosphere this morning, I [...]

A few weeks after I started the blog, Pollyana that I was, I opted to throw open the comments section against the recommendation of several savvy blogfriends. Initially, the quality of comments was uniformly high. Readers stopped by to share their favorite war movies, for example, and posted their keen insights into the costs and [...]

Apropos of my USA Today column on security moms, the fabulous Sekimori has designed some Security Mom gear.

More on security moms here and here.
Update: From Sekimori, “Top Six Signs You May Be a Security Mom.” Reader Cathy Cloud e-mailed me asking where she can buy a “Security Grandma” t-shirt.
Update II: Still more Security Mom t-shirts [...]

The Seattle Times details the security troubles with Internet Explorer. I finally got fed up with it two weeks ago and switched to Mozilla. Have been very pleased. (By the way, if you use Movable Type and find that your style buttons/customization bar disappears when you switch to Mozilla, see Sekimori and Dale Franks.)
More geek [...]

Recommended holiday reading:
Independence: The Forgotten Meaning of America
The National Archives Declaration of Independence online exhibit
The Library of Congress’ American Memory: Documents from the Constitutional Congress and Constitutional Convention
Recommended listening (history lessons to sing with your toddler!):
Schoolhouse Rock - History Rock
Recommended viewing:

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People who use “dialogue” as a verb.
People who use “impact” as a verb.
People who use the phrases “issues with” and “issues around:”
I have issues with X.
Let’s dialogue about the issues around Y.
Let’s not.
Update: Florence King says it best.
Update II: Roger Snowden has some issues around the phrase “no problem.”
Update III: My brother writes:
Gee, I guess [...]

For all the hungry readers who have requested an RSS feed, it is now up! (God bless Sekimori.) My vocabulary has been growing exponentially in the last few weeks (puppy blender, technorati, .mu.nu, blogosphere ecosystem, Fisking, Hobb-ling, moonbats, assorted empires and alliances, etc., etc.). I had no idea what an RSS feed was until a [...]

Thanks to the fabulous Stacy Tabb of Sekimori, we’re up and running with a new look and a blog. Still working on putting together a blogroll and other de rigeur blogstuff. The kids are asleep and I’ll be tooling around. Let me know what you think.