Lee Jones

A few years ago, the Corona beer people had an ad campaign where they basically stated the company’s position on immigration as this: “You’re welcome to come to the United States, so long as you bring a party.” This campaign ran right around Cinco de Mayo, which they used as an example of what they [...]

The “Tourist Trophy” (“TT” to everybody, everywhere) is a two-week series of motorcycle road races that comes every June to the Isle of Man. In many ways it is the heartbeat of the island, pumping in world-wide publicity, civic pride, and no small amount of money for 14 days, then everything returns to the palpable [...]

Since I don’t tweet, I’ll just put this here… This morning, Japanese authorities increased the evacuation zone around a damaged nuclear reactor from a ten-mile radius to a 20-mile radius. CNN TV breathlessly reported: “Evacuation area around nuclear reactor doubled!” gg math

I was doing some amount of air travel over the holidays and, as one will do, found myself with layovers in both Dallas and Atlanta in the last 60 days. These are obviously major hubs and you see an amazing array of humanity there. A lot of that humanity is wearing camouflage uniforms. Mostly they’re [...]

It was a chilly, gray, but precipitation-free day at my parents’ house in Potomac, Maryland. Everybody was out of the house so I decided to go walkabout near Piney Branch, where I used to play as a kid. I should note that when I grew up, our “neighborhood” was close-in horse country. My dad had [...]