This morning we took a short trip – just a few miles from home, but into a completely different world: Deerhorn Valley and the Mother Grundy...

Mike Huckabee's new campaign ad: I know next-to-nothing about Mike Huckabee, as I'd written him off in my own mind as having no chan...

Jim M. passed these along – videos of the most amazing ventriloquist I have ever seen or heard of. Once you watch the first video, you...

This past weekend, Debbie and I visited some places we're very familiar with: the west slope of Cuyamaca Mountain (along Boulder Creek R...

Lakes Entertainment recently had a conference call to talk about their Q3 financial reports. The Jamul Indian Casino project was mentioned...

Mike D. passes these along. I was able to verify the first one (via the indispensable Snopes); the other two I'm not sure of: When in E...

Peggy Noonan's column from last week compares Hillary Clinton and Margaret Thatcher. You won't be surprised which of them comes ou...

Hillary Clinton, on Governor Elliot Spitzer's plan to give New York driver's licenses to illegal aliens in the Empire State: “I didn...

Simi L. passes along this story (warning: put your coffee down first): A young boy went up to his father and asked him, "Dad, what is ...

The Japanese robotic lunar explorer Kaguya has been in a 100 km high lunar orbit for about a month, and its instrument set is operating. A...

From Mike D.: 1. The Cleaning Lady During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and...

By Wretchard, in a comment to this post at the Belmont Club : It's interesting to reflect, on Veterans Day, that all bravery can ever bu...

...when you and your friends hand your camera to someone and ask him to take your picture .

10News.com is reporting that kids in the Jamul area from families who lost their homes in the Harris fire can sign up for a $200 shopping s...

Upate: Reader Mike W. reports that this is a fake , and passes along the Snopes page to prove it . Looks like I was fooled too – I found th...

I heard this in a radio advertisement on my way to work today. The ad was placed by the California Teacher's Association (CTA), and inc...

Here's a fascinating story (if you're a geeky type) about a radical new design for warehouses, enabled by very smart robotics. The...

Another professional meterologist who is skeptical of global warming: John Coleman, founder of The Weather Channel : It is the greatest scam...

Check out today's Day-by-Day cartoon : John Muir (the cartoonist) comments on the moving photograph by Michael Yon, showing Iraqis of se...

The implementation of sin() and cos() on the Intel x86 platform has an interesting bug: For many years, the JDK on x86 platforms has used th...