At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Outer Banks for the weekend, originally uploaded by lfincher. In Kill Devil Hills until Monday afternoon.

California, 1998. Age 16: “I can’t believe those suckers passed me.” Washington, D.C., 2006. Age 24: “I can’t believe they mercilessly shredded my California driver’s license right in front of me. I hate this city.” Virginia, 2008: Age 26: “Oh thank god I’m no longer a D.C. resident. I hope they let me personally shred [...]

Read about this in Surfer magazine today. It was shaped by Rusty Preisendorfer himself. That’s quite an honor. Rusty said that if McCain was a surfer he would make a board for him as well, but we all know that McCain don’t surf.

Wooo, an old white dude! Zzzzzzzz….. Obama shoulda picked Wes Clark. Admittedly, Clark, at 63, is also an old white dude, but he’s my old white dude.

From the 38th floor of the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. Massive hotel, and Times Square is an absolute zoo, but still, not a bad view, huh?

Although this was my sixth trip to New York City, it was the first one in which I visited a few of the typical tourist sites. After the Yankees game, we went to the top of Rockefeller Center, which rises 70 stories above the streets of NYC. Unfortunately, I did not run into my hero, [...]

I met my dad and brother in New York City this past weekend to see the Yankees play the Royals at Yankee Stadium. This was something I really wanted to do this summer, as Yankee Stadium will be demolished following the end of this season, and the Yankees will start their 2009 season in a [...]

Over the past week, Georgian officials have made several claims that the Russians were bombing an area through which the BTC and South Caucasus Pipelines run. An article in today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal seems to confirm these claims: A neat row of large craters in a field in southern Georgia strongly suggests [...]

Seriously, I cannot believe he gets paid to write this stuff: President Bush could cash in on his close personal relationship with Putin by sending him a copy of the highly entertaining (and highly fictionalized) film “Charlie Wilson’s War” to remind Vlad of our capacity to make Russia bleed. Putin would need no reminders of [...]

Some of the back and forth between the Obama and McCain campaigns is listed here, and Robert Amsterdam has a great editorial on the subject: It is a great pity that while thousands die in Georgia, so many Americans can only see the issue for how it can help put their horse ahead. Having McCain [...]