The Lippard Blog

As this blog has reported on multiple prior occasions (in 2006 , 2008 , and 2009 , at the very least), the fact that U.S. airport security s...

From Sons of Maxwell : In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a one-week tour and my Taylor guitar was witnes...

Kat and I made arrangements to travel to D.C. for the inauguration a few months before the election. Our plan was to attend regardless of w...

Looks like the air marshals have a problem similar to the TSA and the Border Patrol : Shawn Nguyen bragged that he could sneak anyth...

Jeffrey Goldberg explains why in The Atlantic . The check for whether you're on the no-fly list is at the time of ticket purchase and c...

Yahoo reports : Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has charged her state a daily allowance, normally used for official travel, for more than 300 night...

On September 26, 2007, I submitted a request to the Department of Homeland Security requesting copies of information relating to me in the A...

We got back from Maryland last night, after spending most of a week at Deep Creek Lake and making day trips to D.C. and Baltimore. The Deep...

Photograph taken at the Farmer's Market "Candyland" near Deep Creek Lake, August 14, 2008. They also make candy "crayons&...

Bad timing for this ad campaign . I suppose Greyhound will be looking for a new ad agency?

I saw two articles this morning which I think invite comparison. First, Phil Dunkelberger, CEO of PGP Corporation, says people visiting Chi...

We're back from a week of vacation in Seattle--this was my third time in the city, but my first time with free time to do touristy thing...

Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackelton's Antarctic campsite cabins at Cape Evans on Ross Island have been sitting there since 1913 and 19...

Kat and I returned yesterday from a week-long trip to our nation's capitol to visit friends, family, restaurants, and museums. We appar...

I spent most of the last nine days in the Grand Canyon, rafting down the Colorado River on the National Center for Science Education 's ...

David at Blue Mass Group offers comment on the Boston Globe 's story which reveals that Mitt Romney used to strap his dog's carrie...

We are back from a trip to London (with side trips to Warwick Castle, Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford, and a couple days in Cambridge). Althoug...

Barbara Peterson took a job as a TSA screener and has written an interesting description of her experience for Conde Nast Traveler . She bl...

Anson Kennedy got this wonderful set of directions on how to get to a location in New Jersey: Stan Schwartz also received some creative dir...

I got back this morning from a few days in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on a business trip. It was a beautiful country, with great summer weath...