Miki is now seven months old, which is kind of “early adolescence” on the doggie time scale. Think 13, 14 year old kid and you’d be about r...

As some of you know, I have a slightly odd hobby: I collect calculating machines, especially slide rules. The majority of these slide rules...

In yesterday’s New York Post, I found this remarkable bit of commentary , excerpted below. The problem is that it is remarkable, whereas i...

Lt. SMASH (an outstanding milblogger who should be on your daily reading list, and not just because he’s from San Diego) confronted a Code P...

Can you even imagine an American politician dealing with this situation ? The only pol I can imagine handling it well is, well, Arnold: BO...

This weekend, the last remaning American who hadn’t shopped at Ikea (me) took the plunge. America’s assimilation into the Ikeain empire is ...

Nick Rossomando — “Nicky Love” to his many friends — was one of the 2,996 Americans killed on 9/11. He was a fireman, a member of the elite...

Most of the lamestream media accounts of this find that I’ve read have spun it as something minor and unimportant. I first read of the find...

A friend emailed me today, mentioning how profoundly communications have changed, even in her lifetime. And that got the ponder going… I su...

Just got word from my mother that they don’t know where my father is. He was supposed to travel from Philadelphia to Halifax, Nova Scotia t...

We have two large clumps of pampas grass in our front yard — each is over 8' tall, and equally broad. Just this past week they’ve come ...

This email is a twist on a common issue: Beginning this month (JULY '06) a new database will be available to the general public free of ...

By now most of you are well aware that my wife (Debbie) competes with our field spaniels in agility. And you may have accidentally caught o...

Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” has a premise that dangerous global warming caused by human activity is a proven scientific fact. Th...

You may know, from previous posts, that I’m not generally a big fan of watching television or movies. I cannot even remember when I was las...

Late last night (my time), the 2,996th blogger signed up with the 2,996 project — meaning that every single one of the 2,996 victims of 9/11...

This is the second Flat Stanley Journal (see the first one here ). Flat Stanley met some of our eight cats this morning. Here he’s snuggli...

Flat Stanley is visiting with us for a week or so. He hails from Flat Rhode Island, where he lives with a fellow blogger, her husband, and...

Think again. As this article explains, a old technique for opening almost any pin tumbler lock has recently been rediscovered and greatly i...