Most languages around the world have some elements of irregularity — words and phrases that don’t follow the rules. But linguists say that ...

I just finished reading “Godless: the Church of Liberalism” (by Anne Coulter), and it was both surprising and what I expected. The expected ...

Tip o’the hat to JimM: A Simple Thank You Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a f...

An interesting new service went live yesterday here in San Diego County: an interactive crime map . And miracle of miracles (considering th...

Actually I have this dish quite frequently — it’s one of my favorite warm weather snacks (or meals, if you eat enough of it!). It’s easy to...

But no thanks to this rotten tool that I was not very optimistic about. No, that thing turned out to be even more useless than I feared — b...

Put down your coffee, now ! Even in the middle of war, it is possible to find common ground: A U.S. Marine squad was marching north of Falui...

An old-fashioned paper calendar — the kind with a page for each month — hangs on my office wall. Just now I happened to glance over at it, ...

When visiting the Villainous Company blog yesterday morning, I came across the transcript of this speech — a riveting, must-read talk give...

Take a good, hard look at these Marine helicopters. See anything that inclines you to hysterical laughter? Now that’s my idea of great camo...

Consider these events: Joe is a young man, a college student, and by all accounts hard-working, honest, and just plain pleasant to be aroun...

Tip o’the hat to reader Sid F., who says: [This] is a way for people to send comments of support to the people of India in their time of ne...

I read a commentary piece in the Wall Street Journal this morning with great interest — it describes an effort (in New Jersey, of all places...

I associate forest fires primarily with dry, hot conditions — the conditions we have in Southern California every year, and also in much of ...

Tip o’the hat to JimM: Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this ...

This coming weekend, I am planning to put down new linoleum tile in our laundry room, and to install some much-needed storage. The first st...

A friend emailed me yesterday to let me know her cell phone had broken, so I wouldn’t be alarmed if I tried to reach her and got the “out of...

A few days ago I posted about a worth project that I had signed up for: an effort to get 2,996 bloggers — one for each victim of 9/11 — to ...

Jodi Burnett is the woman who was killed last week in Jamul by a reckless, speeding driver. Today, while driving past the spot where she die...

Alika died today, very suddenly and very unexpectedly — he was just over two years old, and had no health problems that we knew of. He was ...