An eon or so ago, I posted a puzzler that asked what business Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) got into that bankrupted him. Half the people res...

Last Sunday we took a lovely day trip, driving up the back roads through the coastal mountains and high desert to Mt. San Jacinto. Along th...

For the past week, we've had weather typical of winters here: cold, damp nights with beautiful days. Last night the pattern broke – thi...

Several of you have asked why the Day by Day cartoon is blank, thinking that something was broken. Unfortunately, the reason for the cartoo...

Peggy Noonan – long one of my favorite political columnists – has an outstanding column in today's OpinionJournal . All of these quotes...

The result may not be what you'd expect: A U.S. Marine squad was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist, badl...

Rumors of our demise are definitely premature. I've simply been very busy with my new job. Spotty blogging will continue for a while m...

The standard liberal narrative calls for a failing economy, driven by the failed policies of the Republican administration. The liberal la...

Warning: if you're offended by political incorrectness, don't read the rest of this post. If you ever drop your wallet somewhere, ho...

The folks at Blogger (a Google pro duct) host many, many blogs, including this one. A goodly proportion of those blogs often post photos or...

Today I turned on the heater in our house, for the first time this season. I was sitting in our livingroom, trying to type on my laptop, wh...

One of the rallying cries of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) crowd is “The Arctic Ice is melting!” The high priests of the AGW faith...

Passed along by Mike D.: HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE. George Phillips of Meridian, Mississipp...

Last week's puzzler got some interesting results: exactly half the people who answered got the right answer (picking a random number), a...

I found these on a German website, and I have no idea what the context is. But … I do know that if you go here and just keep scrolling , yo...

From the photo, things don't look too good – but this story has a happy ending. Here's the beginning: According to the Truckee BEAR...

Stephen Ambrose (historian and very popular history writer), I believe, is the man who first called the Americans who were of adults during ...

A beautiful and much-loved cat has gone missing: My daughter's adored cat disappeared 7/14/07. He is friendly, curious, and doesn't ...

Earlier this week, I read about an appeals court ruling that I thought was a very important one. I'd planned to post about it, but the ...

Dr. Christine Wilson and the folks at Steele Canyon Veterinary tell me that they have a dog that's in desperate need of finding its owne...