This morning's news brings two more stories about political pandering to the public's apparent belief that high oil prices are caus...

It was a great business trip, and a very nice visit with my folks. Also a reminder (as if I needed any!) of one of the 10,458 reasons why I...

The Phoenix lander on Mars has begun its primary science mission. One element of that mission includes digging a trench into the Martian so...

Here are a couple of clips from Senator Obama's victory speech : ... I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my o...

After reading quickly through the California and San Diego election results, here's some quick reactions: Propositions 98 and 99: big di...

I'm on the road to visit a large customer, in a place that I didn't think I'd ever visit voluntarily: West Orange, New Jersey. ...

I got this email from Amber and Lyndsay at Steele Canyon Veternarian Clinic: We found a dog over Memorial Day weekend on Hillside in Jamul. ...

A Marine and a sailor were sitting in a bar one day arguing over which was the superior service. After a swig of beer the Marine says, ...

I was up at 3:30 this morning, and by 4 I was out walking our dogs. There was just a hint of dawn in the northeastern sky, and there was a ...

Global warming (or the allegation of it, at least) has implications for the tourism business. One of those implications is that you can now...

The Phoenix lander has started doing what it was made to do: investigate the northern plains of Mars. The science team at Tuscon must be ju...

Some interesting observations about the web sites used by Al Qaeda and their supporters: Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about...

That's the title of a New York Post article that starts like this: The polar bears are doing just fine, thank you very much. So says Al...

Here's a fine mosaic put together by the Phoenix team from many individual images. Eventually they'll have the entire site mapped w...

Of parachuting, that is. This is just amazing: NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander can be seen parachuting down to Mars, in this image captured ...

Something to get you in the pondering frame of mind, on this Memorial Day: The lyrics: If you’re readin’ this My momma’s sittin’ there Looks...

Here's the first of what will be many to follow – a spectacular mosaic of color images taken at various elevations along a single azimut...

Today we celebrate Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember the soldiers, sailors, and others of the United States who gave their lives de...

Feet on another world – the Phoenix lander's three padded feet are solidly in place on the hard ground the northern reaches of Mars. Th...

Phoenix has landed! The lander is safe, all systems are functioning nominally, and it is tilted only by about 0.25°. From indications so f...