Today is garbage day — time to load up all the week’s trash into the back of my pickup, and drive it down the hill to where the garbage truc...

On March 8th last year, Marcos Olguin was driving a van carrying 20 illegal immigrants. The van wasn’t being chased by law enforcement or b...

About a year and a half ago, I wrote about the Unarius organization — our local “space cadets”. The photo at right is of Ruth Norman, aka ...

Milton Friedman died late last year (November 16th), at age 94. He was an economist extraordinaire and the “intellectual father” of presen...

Via Melanie Morgan, an interesting revelation about recent goings-on at the Weather Channel. Here’s an excerpt, but do read the whole thing...

Here’s an interesting look at some history most Americans have forgotten. We’ve been facing a threat from some Muslims for a very long time...

How a Marine says goodbye . What could I possibly add to this?

Our local Indian tribe is trying to build a casino that will occupy their entire six-acre reservation. Two members — a significant percenta...

Some years ago (more than I want to think about at the moment) I read a book about the propaganda used to influence public opinion. The boo...

I’m up in San Francisco at the moment for some business meetings. I stayed at a hotel on Geary Street last night, near the train station at...

Last night it was unusually cold — about 26 or 27 Fahrenheit at ground level, and this cold was sustained for several hours. The produced a ...

A fellow Jamulian wrote me last night with some interesting information. It seems that there has been a rash of thefts of two sorts in the ...

A couple of my loyal readers (in other words, about three quarters of them) have written to ask why my political blogging has virtually stop...

Yesterday four of us (Debbie, myself, Jim Barnick, and his girlfriend Michelle) took a short hike up the maintenance road from Paso Picacho ...

Miki is almost a year old — still very much a puppy, but also starting to mature into a “real” dog. He’s developing a very sweet personalit...

Debbie came running into my office at daybreak yesterday, telling me that I absolutely had to come see something. I went into the living r...

Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) have been much in the news lately, especially with Wal-Mart’s decision to promote them. Many environmen...

Tip of the hat to reader RickP: Three Explorers Are Captured… A Frenchman, an Englishman and a New Yorker were exploring the jungle and were...

A teacher’s union president can’t add simple fractions (from the New York Daily News): The radio audience was live and the question for teac...

Phil Plait blogs at Bad Astronomy , always an interesting spot to visit in the blogosphere. He’s got a particularly interesting post up ri...