Radio Free Dogpatch

Mister Boo goes under the knife, but it's the Mad Dog who feels stuck.

Patrick O'Grady and his old friend Hal Walter team up for an impromptu Two Dudes Mystery Theatre podcast, discussing a pair of late poets — Jim Harrison and Merle Haggard — as well as journalism, cooking and a couple of pet projects. For more information on the topics discussed, see www.maddogmedia.com.

Our Samsung top-loading washer has just enjoyed its seventh service call in slightly more than a year of light use.

Bibleburg is getting its own bush-league pro soccer franchise, and all it asks is a million-dollar public kiss on its private lips.

It's OK to sleep on the sidewalk in the Land of the Free, as long as you're planning to buy something. And in recent years, that "something" is likely to be for yourself. But is a Scrooge-like change a-coming? Depends upon whom you ask.

The U.S. Air Force Academy's neighbors complain about (wait for it) the sound of aircraft.