Over the past few months, evidence has been accumulating that temperatures declined sharply this past year (especially in the last four mont...

Posting for the next couple of days will be light-to-non-existent, as your humble blogger will be traveling on business. I'm headed up ...

Yesterday (Sunday), Debbie and I took a drive through our local mountains – a drive that turned out to be full of surprises. Most of the su...

Well, not very many people attempted to answer last week's puzzler – but everyone who did got it right. What is the middle name of a for...

That's where we are this morning – and no, we haven't gone on a trip. The latest rain storm has apparently arrived, and our house i...

Walking into our driveway this morning (after a delightful walk into our local hills) we spotted two pairs of bluebirds. They're here t...

The storm that ended yesterday dropped a total of 1.6 inches of rain on us – just as the spring growth is starting to push up in cleared are...

Via my mom: The Haircut One day a florist goes to a barber for a haircut. After the cut he asked about his bill and the barber replies, ...

Our unusually wet rainy season continues. In the past few hours, we've had nearly another half inch of rain, and it's still raining...

My readers know well how I detest the thought of a government-run healthcare system. So, in the interest of balance, I bring you an article...

I never thought of this as a consquence of Hillary losing the Democratic nomination: How does Supreme Court Justice Hillary Clinton sound? I...

Via the WSJ : A Navy missile soaring 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean smashed a dying U.S. spy satellite late Wednesday night and appears t...

The 2008 Presidential race is starting to firm up as being a Obama versus McCain faceoff. Early in the race (I'm talking about, oh, fou...

It's been working reliably for me now, for about four days straight. I haven't had any reports of problems since Monday. My reader...

Here's an excerpt from his letter to the people: To my dearest compatriots, who have recently honored me so much by electing me a member...

Not from the Iraq War – but from World War II. This is a fascinating series of letters written by Edward Ryan, who was an engineer in Patt...

I hesitate to even say this out loud, but…I haven't had a problem accessing my blog for 48 hours now. I've still had no feedback fr...

Every year, United Van Lines publishes a study of internal American migration patterns , using the data from their own moving jobs. The map ...

Debbie and I have been married for almost 27 years. At this point, I'm a fairly well-trained husband when it comes to Valentine's D...

In referece to Hillary Clinton: At a minimum, a head of state should have a head. So says Vladimir Putin. Well. You can't really disagr...