Five of you got the right answer on this one, and only two got it wrong. But most of you didn't even try! The scale of the universe is ...

Imagine that you owned a water tank located on a hill behind your house. The water tank is 300 feet from the house, on an uphill slope that...

Another day of fine progress on our safe-house! Davy (the mason) showed up bright and early, with two of his sons (Roberto and Alfredo). As ...

John Fund, commenting in today's WSJ Political Diary ($ email) , about the decision by every announced Democratic 2008 Presidential cand...

Writing in today's WSJ ($) , Daniele Cappezone (president of the productivity committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies) writes about...

Pamela Adams used to be the president of the Friends of Jamul-Dulzura Schools, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing (with volunt...

Updated and bumped: Mike W. (one of my readers) spotted an interesting change on the Lakes Entertainment web site . Here's what it says...

Tip of the hat to my mom for this one: An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand pulling a male buffalo with the other. He s...

The astonishing and unexpected progress continues! Despite the masons taking the day off (because of the uncertainty about the inspection t...

The unions who represent federal employees love to spin the image of their members as selfless civil servants, making sacrifices like long h...

Another day with great progress on our safe-house! Davy and his 14 year old son Alfredo (at right) worked a long day today, and actually th...

My mom sent me an email copy of an interesting commentary piece by a person whose name I recognized: Dr. David Gratzer. He's a Canadia...

I still can't quite wrap my brain around the fact that our safe-house is actually being built. After eight months of inactivity, sudde...

T oday the Botany Photo of the Day site is featuring this Mexican plant ( Mentzelia hispida ) . I wish it grew around here; it's gorge...

Cox & Forkum nail it again , this time in response to the Democrat's maneuvers on Capitol Hill to eliminate a proposed “shield law” ...

Debbie came into my office a few minutes ago with spectacularly good news: the masons have arrived, and they have begun laying the block for...

My father called me yesterday from my parents' home in New Jersey. I could tell that he was very excited, and I soon found out why – ju...

Simon tagged me on his blog , looking for eight random facts about me. The rules: 1) Post these rules before you give your facts. 2) Lis...

Here's last week's poll and its results (at right). Two people got it right – the correct answer is the longitudinal center of gravi...

If you're a regular reader of my blog, then you've suffered through quite a few unhappy posts over my frustrations with getting a f...