Many mornings on my commute (usually around 5:00 or 5:30 am), I listen to Chip Franklin, a local talk show host on KOGO (AM 600). Mostly it...

Joseph “Bob” Orlosky was acquitted today of murder and attempted murder charges. On several other charges, the jury reached no verdict, and...

A few weeks ago, Gary Hubbell had a commentary piece in the Aspen Times that caught my attention because it captures nicely the essence of ...

Simon M. passes this along: One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers ...

Just this morning I posted (below) about the remarkable imagery from the MRO's HiRISE instrument. Now this afternoon they've releas...

As I write this there are several robotic explorers on and orbiting around Mars, and another is approaching quickly (the Phoenix lander). R...

I cooked on my own tonight, as Debbie is a million miles away at that agility meet. Usually when she's gone I just scrounge my meals fr...

Debbie is off at an agility meet in Silverado, California. She's competing with Mo'i, but she also has Miki along – he needs to get...

Over the past few years a recurring plaint from liberals, their lamestream media lapdogs, and the losing side of a war (fascinating how that...

Last Sunday, the 60 Minutes show broadcast a segment that made a case for a Republican conspiracy (conspicuously led by Karl Rove) to false...

... in our yard. What cheerful things they are!

While on my walk this morning, I found this stuff near the bottom of a fairly large oak tree. I've never seen anything like it before. ...

On our neighbor's property, there's a hill that lies due west of our home. Near the top of this hill, on its eastern slope (facing ...

These three families of organisms all live in the chaparral, and they either dis appear or are dormant anytime the chaparral is dry. The lic...

It's only the first of March, but here in the chaparral we're already seeing some plants acting springy. At right are the flowerbud...

When you've been a consumer for as many years as I have, you know that you need to remember and cherish a vendor who delivers good servi...

Last week's puzzler had more wrong answers than I usually see & ndash ; chaparral esoterica must not be the repertoire of most of my...

If you've been reading this blog for a while, then you know how I despair about the state of the American education system (both primary...

Pictured at right is something we don't have very many of in our area: baby manzanita. This particular one appears to be about three ye...

This morning we were in the clouds – the sun didn't burn them off until about 9 am. Just a few minutes after the sunshine broke out, I ...