Via my mom, this revised version of an oldie-but-goodie: The train was quite crowded and a U. S. Marine walked the entire length looking fo...

Via my mom (who has some idea what to do with a .357 revolver): The Arizona Department of Safety Officer pulled over pick-up truck owner Mi...

Via my mom: I was eating lunch on the 20th of February with my 10-year-old grandson and I asked him, "What day is tomorrow?" He ...

Here's the conclusion of Peggy Noonan's piece in the WSJ today : Barack Obama is different, not a political practitioner, really, b...

Uh, not so much ... I've been talking about this for years on this blog, and so have many other people.  But when the facts even perco...

...and it looks like they're going to be great !

Via my mom:

Down again.  Below is the latest update of the Case-Shiller index .  It's good news if you're buying a house, bad news if you're...

The Washington Post has a couple of primers on the current budget plans before Congress and the history of the debt ceiling.  If you don...

When I think about things like this , it seems to me that we have nearly arrived at the point where a conventional desktop is unnecessary.  ...

A nice compendium ...

...that the breath you just took had some molecules of air that were part of Julius Caesar's last breath? Answer here .

When we left this morning it was overcast and raining, so I didn't bother taking my camera.  That was a bad mistake on my part, as Cuyam...

The U.S. Post Office's travails were entirely predictable – in fact, they were predicted, by a great many people including me.  The rea...

It's the end of May, and we're getting more rain – most unexpected out here in the high desert chaparral.  We've only had a few ...

With an amazing backstory .  Via reader Jim M.

Unknown source, via reader Jim M.: Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds and thanking Ronald McDonald for the h...