Cow flop fung i, officially (but less descriptively) known a s Pilobolus crystalinus.   Via Botany Photo of the Day .  Click for a larger vi...

Poster of the day, via my lovely wife.  Click to enlarge.  Put down your morning drink first, though...

Out with the dogs again at 3:30 am.  A beautiful, perfect full moon was high in the southwestern sky.  It's bright light lit up our whol...

My cousin Mike D. sends along this parable: A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.  ...

Via my lovely wife, who says she agrees with this 100%: New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60! I am over 60 and the Armed...

The project is moving right along.  Chris (the contractor) and his two boys were here yesterday (Saturday) to work on getting the roof in ...

Via my mom... (click to enlarge)

The open-borders crowd has some thinking to do.  Mexican nationals – members of the much-feared “Los Zetas” drug cartel – have captured at l...

The frames at right were captured on a 10,000 fps video camera with a macro lens aimed at a sphagnum moss just as it shot out its spores .  ...

It's a new programming language from Google.  I just ran across it for the first time, and I haven't had a chance to look at it car...

Generally, most of the visitors to my little blog get here in one of two ways: either they are crazy enough to have bookmarked my blog, or t...

Well, we're a few days into the project now, and we're still very pleased with progress.  The old roof is now entirely gone; we'...

This time from the WSJ.  There's a lot of interesting material at the link , but to my point in a previous post: If people without jobs...

The web site really exists , though it redirects to a T-shirt store...

Via my cousin Mike D.: A farmer named Clyde had a car accident. In court, the trucking company's fancy lawyer was questioning Clyde. ...

Via my lovely (laughing) wife:

Via my lovely wife: If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a TelePrompter installed to be able to get through a press confe...

Interesting rant by the ever-fascinating Pat Condell, via my cousin Mike D.:

Via The Atlantic .  Someone at the Department of Labor is probably going to have a stern talking-to over this.  Why?  Because it exposes the...

Via my cousin Mike D., a psychotherapist's estimate of Obama's mental health: Let's return now to my original question: What is...