Randall Munroe posts his original web comics, generally a few times a week, at his site XKCD (A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and lang...

If you’re paying any attention at all to what’s happening in the world, then you know by now that Nicolas Sarkozy has won the French preside...

The Russia Journal (primarily a news site about Russia) provides today’s quote from their “Sunday Sermon” piece called “ Stand Up for Eston...

Bernard Harcourt is one of those names that catches my attention whenever I see it — if he’s written something, it’s bound to be interestin...

Every winter, most of our hummingbirds (including the most numerous of our four local species) migrate to warmer climates (mostly Costa Rica...

Did you ever wonder how the Iraqis themselves feel about the talk in the U.S. (and elsewhere) about withdrawing the troops? Listen to Hoshy...

Tip o’the hat to SimiL for this gem… "It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilli...

If David Keene is right , California Senator Diane Feinstein is another corrupt oinker stealing money from the U.S. taxpayers. A lot of mon...

As many of my readers already know, for over ten year ending in 2004 I was a frequent visitor to the little Baltic country of Estonia. Two ...

Those two sad-looking, T-shirted field spaniels are Lea (on the left) and Mo’i (on the right). Within the space of a week, both of them man...

StrategyPage has an interesting article about what troops are actually doing the U.N. peacekeeping duties around the world. Where the bul...

Halala Pala is one of our eight cats, the biggest of the bunch. His name ("Halala” or “Ha” for short) means “big mellow” in Hawaiian, ...

Mark Steyn, in his column today , weighs in on the very predictable liberal hooting and hollering for more gun control following the Virgini...

Words just fail me… "I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and — you have to make your own decisions as to...

As some of you actually noticed, the blog was down for a few hours today. I have monitors that continuously watch the Internet connectivity...

The tragedy at Virginia Tech is already being used by the left as a vehicle to push through gun control laws. Every time a gun is used in a...

I have a sure-fire way to cut our income taxes substantially — by half, at least. My plan has just two elements: Outlaw tax withholding. To...

About seven months ago, I posted about the non-breaking Kevlar shoelaces I’d discovered. Well, today I finally had to replace my first pai...

This afternoon I took Miki and Lea on a walk around the yard, and found this fellow in bloom uphill from where we park our cars. Gorgeous t...

Just a few weeks ago I was searching for information on an unusual French slide rule (the “ Supremathic "). I posted a question a Yaho...