Well, when I asked the question, I knew I was going to hear a lot about the comments. Many of you don't like the vicious posts in our comments -- and neither do I.

The question is, what to do about it.

Ah, Opening Day.

You could practically smell the hot dogs and grass, if it weren’t so cold you couldn’t feel your face.

After we announced that we'd be starting to require registration on the site to comment, many in the community immediately accused us of censorship.

More than two months ago now, I asked what people would change about this website and touched off a brouhaha about the comments on the stories on this site.

You don't have to get snotty.

READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED, unless you are or have been a parent of a toddler.

This may sound a little gross, which is why I have added the warning above, but as a parent I'm hoping you all can relate.

It is a truism that people overestimate what can happen in two years and underestimate what can happen in five. When you think about the web, it's really remarkable what's happened to it in the last five years. Facebook was a month old in March of 2004.

This is not one of those blogs where you are supposed to take me literally. I could just see large soggy boxes with nothing but a top hat, three pieces of coal, a carrot and a corn cob pipe waiting for me in the lobby at the Register.

I took advantage of Friday's warm weather by taking my two boys for a walk around town. We were walking down Central Avenue when I heard a crunch.

I remember when I was going to night school in 1998 to earn my graduate certificate in gerontology the professors were teaching students that, "Today's senior citizen population is the wealthiest and the healthiest older population our country has ever seen." (The professors were referring to tho

Are you a retiree and receiving Social Security/Railroad Retirement or Veterans benefits and afraid to apply for the Economic Stimulus Payment?