Bob Geary

We’ve tweaked our radio frequencies, per your suggestion. So that new ad by the N.C. Association of Realtors is coming through loud and clearthe one about “Stop the Home Tax.” Two questions: What’s a RealtorTM? And what are they talking about when they say a 1 percent tax when you sell your house “would cost […]

Please explain the operation of your sock markets. Why did you pick socks to be your medium of exchange? (We use marsmas, as I mentioned once before.) Is it really true that some people own billions of socks, while most on your planet own no socks at all? That doesn’t seem right, orjust thinking about […]

So now, we begin again. Six months after the TTA rail project fell, was postponed, or got put in cold storage with Ted Williams’ brain, the effort to plan a future for the Triangle region that includes rapid transit and sidesteps the roadway-gridlock alternative is finally at hand. Good luck to it. That it took […]

That’s an interesting spot up in the northeastern corner of your state. Lots of water, not many people, but some huge flocks of birds are theredid we hear correctly that they’re chickens? Actually, Zork, I think that’s the Pocosin Lakes Wildlife Refuge, and what you see are migratory snow geese and other waterfowloh, wait, you […]

OK, we’re not stupid up here, so we know that when Ann Coulter called John Edwards a “faggot,” she didn’t mean he was a “bundle of sticks” or “pieces of wrought iron.” But what did she mean? And why would Republican candidates for president appear with her? Call me on a secure line, Zork, and […]

Were you shocked, shocked to learn that state Treasurer Richard Moore, whose job is to invest the state’s pension funds, has been taking campaign contributions from the very suits he pays to help him make those investments? The same Richard Moore who’d like to be your next Democratic governor? If soif you roll your eyes […]