The rain, that is. We've gotten 2.75 inches so far this storm system – a veritable drenching by our normal standards – and it is still ...

Ok, so it was an itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie earthquake: a whopping magnitude 1.2. I'm pretty sure you couldn't feel that even if you ...

The end of the dry season, that is! Our rain total for the month is now 2.5 inches (64mm), all of which has fallen in the past three days (...

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 ...