The further away from yourself you get, the crazier you become.

There’s reality TV and there’s reality.

A funny thing happened on the way home this week. I was tired and just anxious to get home, so instead of waiting in an outside turn lane to make a quick right turn, I switched to the inside lane.

Rodney Dangerfield’s proclamation from the all-time greatest golf film is especially true if this prime real estate causes our local park authority to lose more than $1 million a year.

There’s a George Booth cartoon from a while back that shows a man, ostensibly a writer, sitting at a table on which there is a typewriter (this shows how old school the cartoon is).

Prince William County needs to stop competing with private enterprise. It is time that golf courses, as well as other forms of entertainment, are taken out of the government arena.

It will be interesting to see how all we potential flu-bug carriers in Northern Virginia will react to the ebb and flow of the coming flu season.

As the Democrat’s gubernatorial primary was drawing to a close, the Washington Post surprised many political observers by endorsing the unpolished Creigh Deeds over happenin’ guy Terry McAuliffe and liberal heart-throb Brian Moran.

The Virginia Railway Express has voted to follow Virginia law, “allowing” law-abiding gun owners to carry their weapons on the VRE trains.

OK, I admit I am guilty of this.  On occasion, while driving, I get that buzzing vibration on the side of my hip. The one meaning my phone is on silence mode and I just received a text message.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell is much better at staying on message than I am.

The tenor of today’s so-called political debate brings to mind Oscar Wilde’s observation, “Nothing succeeds like excess.”

Several months ago, the School Board directed our Superintendent to investigate the possibility of merit pay for teachers. 

I told my daughter they don’t, but that was just another in a long line of whoppers that roll easily off the tongues of moms and dads, according to new research from the University of Toronto and the University of California, San Diego.

Recently I went to visit the ATM at my local bank, and something was different. The ATM had been moved down a few feet, and the drive-up windows were gone.

Let’s face it. Neither candidate in the fast-approaching Virginia gubernatorial election would win any major awards for smarts or charisma, but they are what they are, and we voters are stuck with them.

When I visited my grandparents in rural North Texas as a boy, I answered nature’s call sitting atop a compost heap that was surrounded by an outhouse.

Where have you gone Chris Brown and Mike Riley?

For all the claims of opponents, political advertisements rarely contain absolute falsehoods. When they do, even the most biased news outlets feel compelled to call out brazen lies. 

I saw the other day that Google Earth had added a new feature that allows users to dig a virtual hole from any spot on earth and see where they would come out on the other side.

When I think of guns, I think of hunting or protecting myself, my family or my property. The last thing I think of is the Virginia Rail Express (VRE). 

Lately I have been thinking about what I take for granted.

A reader in Alabama fired off an e-mail telling me in no uncertain terms that he’s against the federal government meddling in his health care and his future Medicare.

It was the first day of autumn — the early evening, actually — when I was called home to investigate a disturbance.

I generally arrive to school in the morning way before any students. My son is a high schooler and, since his school is on the way to mine, I drop him off and then continue on.

Got a couple of issues to discuss today — small business office space and a solution to traffic on Smoketown Road.

Now I know why people bring their hammer to Comcast offices in a last-ditch effort to improve their customer experience.

If Virginia in any way resembles a microcosm of the country (an arguable point, but we do have that internal “North and South” thing going for us), we also live in a world of increasing contradictions that compete for our time, money and resources.

Last Tuesday, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted to create an Animal Advisory Board to focus on ways to improve the Prince William Animal Shelter.

For the first time in its history, the Federal Reserve created $2 trillion of assets and debts during the past year so it could rescue banks from the unparalleled leverage that brought the world’s biggest economy to a collapse unlike anything since the Great Depression