[links] Weekend Reacharound

A bit belated due to travel, but in case you were offline over the weekend, here's a few items of potential interest from this blog:

Travel update

the_child goes horseback riding

Miscellaneous Portland photos

the_child is funny

Automotive Zen

The cringe words poll — With a fascinating comment thread. Go back and check it out if you haven't seen it since it go big.

How my writing is changing

A pithy political observations

The Reagan Archipelago — I make a facile observation about parallels between Bushism and Stalinism, substantial comment discussion ensues.

As usual, link salad here, here and here.