This article has the details , but the bottom line is that (as expected) the County Supervisors are not voting on the General Plan Update un...

Here's a great collection of spectacular optical illusions .  In the one at right, the “yellow” tile is actually exactly the same color ...

When Peggy Noonan's writing started wandering down a strange path (this started when Obama was campaigning in 2008), it was a big disapp...

As of this past Monday morning, we'd had a total of a quarter inch of rain in October.  As of this morning, the guage stood at 3.15 inch...

We got almost a third of an inch of rain last night, and more is forecast for today and tomorrow.  This certainly is a very odd “fire season...

This morning I woke as usual at 3 am, and stumbled out with the dogs for their morning walk.  It was foggy outside, with very limited visibi...

Yesterday Debbie and I were planning to do a little four-wheeling in the valley just south of Corte Madera.  But as we got ready to leave, w...

Via my mom: Oh, yes, please!

Interesting piece passed along by reader Jim M.: I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War Two. They own...

Warren Meyer (of CoyoteBlog ) has a column in Forbes that provides an excellent introduction into the skeptics view of current climate scie...

Nothing but cool, humid, cloudy, rainy days in the forecast.  It's all foggy outside right now.  Fire seasons don't get any better t...

Read this letter to the editor .  Via my brother Mark D. Then re-read it just before you vote on November 2.

Via my brother Mark D.: Oh, I don't know, Jimmy...it might be a tie!

Via reader Jim M.: T'was the night before elections And all through the town Tempers were flaring Emotions all up and down I, i...

Thank God for Barack Obama! From Gary Hubbell, writing at RightNetwork: But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of d...

Unarian “polarities” I have posted about the Unarians on several previous occasions.  By this time I've read quite a bit about them –...

While I was away, our roof contractor came (as promised) to finish the job.  We are just tickled pink with the roof itself, the way that our...

And it sure is nice to be here.  I picked up another danged virus of some kind on the way home, but this one is nowhere near as bad as the ...

Excellent Republican ad, via my sister-in-law Gina:

New Zealand's National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) issued a report claiming that New Zealand has been warming at...