Via reader Simi L., who gets an awful lot of good stuff: To be posted VERY LOW on the refrigerator door - snout height: Dear Dogs and Cats, ...

Reader Simi L. sent me an email with this essay, and then a little Googling let me know it was written by Iowahawk . Now, Iowahawk has writ...

I don't know whether to laugh or cry after reading Mark Steyn's recent piece We're in the fast lane to Bailoutistan . Here'...

Via my mom: Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No o ne knows for sure ho...

Courtesy of Simi L.: Q: Where can men over the age of 60 find younger, sexy women who are interested in them? A: Try a bookstore – under fic...

It was cold this morning when I walked the dogs – 36°F (2°C). Our low last night was 35°F . Looks like frost is coming our way a little e...

It looks like this storm is done with; we got our last rain about an hour ago and the radar looks clear. The pressure bottomed out at 29.55...

One of the finest examples of the art of advertising I have ever seen...

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...