me: in the kitchen, making my tea Debbie: from 15 feet away, next to our cat tree – "Eeew!" me: “What?” Debbie: “Maka Lea is...

Saxifraga oppositifolia , courtesy of the UBC Botanical Garden (click to enlarge).  If you love plants and flowers, I promise you there'...

Yes, I'm pissed off. But not at what you thought I was pissed off at.  I'm not angry with our elected representives – for the m...

Many are the ways in which our miserable, correctness-besotted educational system fail our students.  Today I read about yet another one , n...

But the document they didn't want you to read can be found here ...

Basically it's going to make us into another stifling, oppressive, European-style nanny state .  And steal our money along the way, whi...

I do not approve of such actions , though I fully understand the emotions underlying them. On a related note, I note with some encourageme...

Business IT projects are notorious for being poorly managed, late, and over-budget, and for delivering something other than what was actuall...

There's a reason (lots of them, actually) why Southwest is one of the very few profitable domestic American airlines.  Here's one of...

Philip Caputo (in the Atlantic) looks at The Fall of Mexico .  As you read it, consider how much of this carnage would simply disappear if d...

WSJ has a nice piece on what happens when North Korea (inevitably) collapses ...

A gasoline engine powered alarm clock wins Energy Star certification. Seriously . Your tax dollars at work.  Are you pissed off yet ?

Damned bureaucrat, clinging to his cushy job ...

My mom forwarded me this email she'd received: An idea whose time has come. For too long we have been too complacent about the workin...

Via my mom: A Short Spelling Lesson: The last four letters in “American”: I Can The last four letters in “Republican”: I Can The last f...

Jeff Goldstein is one very edgy writer, and a strong advocate of our freedom of speech.  Amongst the many people he studied under is a creat...

An excellent piece over at Watts Up With That? on how NASA's Dr. James Hansen manipulated raw data to come up with alarming-looking “d...

Peggy's worried .  I'm not interested in seeing any real violence, but I'm very encouraged to see that emotions in the electorat...

Update: False alarm : Sheriff's investigators say a 12-year-old boy who claimed he had been kidnapped Tuesday night in Jamul fabricate...

Here's an interesting paper about CO2 modeling .  The assumption of exponential growth of CO2 in the climate models underpins the predic...