About seven years ago, in a different life, I sat down with this man to negotiate the sale of a technology and product line that my company ...

At least for now. Good.

Before NASA's Voyager robotic explorers flew by Jupiter in 1979, scientists believed that Jupiter's moons – so far from the sun'...

Over at CoyoteBlog , there's a fascinating post on the actual jobs loss data (as opposed to the overwrought hype that fills our news med...

Tiajuana, Mexico is a city of 2.7 million people, just across the border from San Diego. That puts it about 25 miles from my home. Over th...

From U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald: “The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering. They allege that Blagojevich put...

A new image from the Spitzer Space Telescope, this one showing a star-forming region in M17 (the “Swan Nebula”). This is yet another piece o...

Published on September 15, 2008 in the Casper, Wyoming Star-Tribune : A celebration of life for James William "Jim" Adams, 53, wil...

Sixty-seven years ago this day, the Empire of Japan launched its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was correct: th...

I happened to come across this little gem while doing my morning reading: I grew up in Jamul, CA. We used to hike in the hills above Tecate...

Mo'i and Debbie (at right) are the top-ranked field spaniel agility competitors in the U.S. this year, for the third year in a row. Nex...

...as if it's a big surprise. Specifically, Nobel Peace Prize laureate El Baradei said today : The chief of the world's nuclear wea...

Charles Lipson, at American Thinker : In Britain's leading papers, we find pictures of gun-toting terrorists, in the midst of grisly kil...

We recently purchased this Stanley tripod LED flashlight ( on sale at Amazon), and I've been using it every morning and evening when wa...

I just got back inside after walking the dogs. We're in a dense, cold fog right now – visibility is just a hundred feet or so, and the ...

Forwarded by Simi L. I have no idea if this is real or not, but I like it! According to a Marine Pilot: In addition to communicating with t...

A collection of groan-inducing puns, forwarded by my cousin Mike: The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. H...

Many of my readers will be familiar with this oldie-but-goodie parable, which has been rejiggered for current circumstances: The little red ...