Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talent by dwarthy

From the Wall Street Journal : The kidnapped captain of the Maersk Alabama has been rescued and is safe aboard a U.S. Navy ship. Wonderful. ...

Debbie and I did a little four-wheeling today, in a beautiful area that was entirely new to us – to our shame, as it's very close to hom...

Though I'm not entirely sure what it means... From the San Diego Union-Tribune : The Jamul Indian band has dropped a lawsuit in whic...

A reader emailed me with news of a dog wandering around the area around Lyons Valley Road and Jamul Highlands Road – near the Mormon Church ...

Amber from the Steele Canyon Veterinary clinic writes to say that a male dog has been found near the Jamul Post Office. It's currently ...

I guess we're just counter-cultural and/or primitive out here in the sticks. Any miscreant showing his face at our home will be met wi...

From Sign On San Diego, an article that sounds a bit pessimistic about the prospects for the Jamul Indian Casino. From the article: Feder...

Reader Linda I. sent in this photo of a 3 foot long King snake that's just about finished with his lunch: a smaller rattlesnake. The on...

An anonymous reader sends this word: I just want to say about the whole Johnny Dallo situation that on your blog it says he got a year and h...

From my mom: There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP....

Kimberlee Quarles, who is a neighbor of ours, wrote to make us aware of some burglaries occuring in the area. An excerpt from her blog post...

Here's a site that any geek will love: Command-line-fu. It lets anyone post their favorite command line hacks, and then the readers vote...

From the Sony World Photography Awards. See them all here .

This is a soothing balm for a citizen feeling much abraded by the shenanigans of most of the politicians on the national stage: We are not r...

First, the one-liner: Why do we never hear calls for Hamas leaders to be charged with war crimes? This is from a most interesting speech by ...

Reader Larry E. writes: So, where did I go wrong? I wonder about this. I know people that try to “live for today” and I always thought they ...

From my cousin Mike: While there's a lot in this rant I don't agree with, it's a great rant. In recent days my hopes for the po...

A fascinating article by Clay Shirky. A sample: Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism. For a century, the imperative...