Ever since the big Cedar fire just over two years ago, our once-abundant local bobcats have been very scarce — and in our valley, almost non...

Mo’i (the field spaniel) and Boots (the cat) are enjoying some late afternoon sunshine streaming in our livingroom window. The dark-furred ...

Baking cookies with your cat — a step-by-step guide: 1. Look in cookbook for cookie recipe. 2. Get cup of coffee. 3. Get cat off of cookbook...

If you’re wondering why my blogging has been light recently, there are two main reasons: I’ve been sick as the proverbial dog for the past f...

Hah! Here’s a short post from The Big Pharaoh (a most excellent blog, BTW) that I’ve taken the liberty of posting in its entirety: The THI...

Lt. Hank Harding died on March 27, 1961 when his Navy FJ-4 “Fury” crashed into the side of Otay Mountain. Bad weather and confusion at the ...

What could I add to this? Click on the little picture to see this clearly…

This morning’s news of the Al Qaida leaders killed in the Pakistan strike a few days ago got me to thinking about the internal reactions of ...

Ahhh … there’s nothing quite like the sting of a Mark Steyn piece in the morning… From “ Ham-handed Dems didn’t lay a glove on Alito ":...

Watching Mrs. Alito quietly crying during Senator Graham’s apology for the behavior of Senators Ted Kennedy and Chuck Schumer was one of the...

If you’re as tired as I am of the way that most Democrats are now opposing everything about the Iraq War, giving comfort to our enemies, and...

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an op-ed piece by Sergei Ivanov, the deputy prime minister and minister of defense of the Russian Federation...

These very clever anagrams were sent to me by a friend… DORMITORY — DIRTY ROOM PRESBYTERIAN — BEST IN PRAYER ASTRONOMER — MOON STARER DESPER...

I ran across this on BoingBoing, where they showed the picture of the girl at right. Not a real girl, BTW — just a little photoshopping. The...

This photo looks like something right out of one of the pulp science fiction novels I devoured as a kid: From the official Cassini website :...

With two dogs and seven cats living in our house, we have our share of inter-species animosity (though much less than you might think). Add...

As a homeowner in rural Southern California, you might think I’m nearly an ideal case for solar power. Throw a few solar panels on my roof,...

I took the liberty of reproducing in entirety this very short op-ed piece in today’s WSJ: No one knows how Winston Churchill would have fou...

Estonia, that’s who. In the 2006 Index of Economic Freedom (click on the thumbnail at right to read the whole chart), Estonia places 7th in ...

Yesterday morning Debi and I, along with Lea and Mo’i (our two beautiful field spaniels), took our usual walk a mile or so up the hill south...