Via my mom: I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like his health care scam. I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook...

On the lower Mississippi River, there's a stretch of land where the properties are all long, skinny tracts, with each having a tiny sliv...

Beautifully cool (57°F) and clear, with a half-moon high in the northeastern sky, just alongside the Pleiades.  Jupiter is still bright and ...

Via colleague James C.: Q.  Why do computer geeks get Halloween confused with Christmas? A.  Because oct 31 == dec 25! If you don't ge...

A documentary, roughly 45 minutes and quite good:

My mother-in-law (Kate) arrived Friday night for her annual visit, and we've been busy settling her in.  Tonight we're headed out fo...

The high yesterday was 76°F; the low last night 44°F.  This is summer in San Diego?  I global warming means this kind of summer for us, I sa...

Earlier this week we had temperatures over 105°F, which are normal for us this time of year.  Before that our summer had beed substantially ...

Via my cousin Mike D.: Wal-Mart vs. The Morons 1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day. 2. This works out t...

I never knew how this part of the Sugar Plum Fairy was created – and this certainly wasn't what I'd have guessed.  The instrument i...

Jeez, this sure is a long way from the rampant Obama adoration two years ago.  Via reader James M.:

An easy job, I know, but Andrew Klavan does it very convincingly in his inimitable (and very entertaining) style. Via my sister-in-law Gina ...

A very interesting article by Roy Baumeister, and probably not what you're expecting from the title.  Recommended.

Via reader Doug S.:  some lucky computer science students in England are getting a chance to learn about how the guts of computers actually ...

The Big Bear Solar Observatory's New Solar Telescope (with a 1.6 meter aperture and adaptive optics) has achieved first light ; the ima...

The Obama Administration's EPA is seriously considering it . It's almost like they want to be thrown out of power...

Yesterday brought us some very odd summer weather.  First it was very hot (got up to 108°F).  Then a thunderstorm rolled overhead.  Lightnin...

Yeah, I know it will never happen – but we can dream, can't we?  Or is that a taxable event now, too?  Via my cousin Mike D.: Congressi...

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The anthropogenic global warming crowd has found supposed effects of global warming all over the place (think polar bears and drowning islan...