Reader Larry E. passes along this story about $205,075 of stimulus money being used to transplant a manzanita bush .  He comments: Well, h...

It's my blog; I can have two quotes of the day!  This one is from Mark Steyn: Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nat...

Kip Hawley was the head of the TSA for over three years, just before Obama took office.  He has a piece in today's Wall Street Journal ...

From an interview with Roger Scruton in the Wall Street Journal : Many of the people who brand themselves as climatologists are not in the...

The Washington Times has video of some of the five survivors...

This is completely cool...

Remember this when you vote in November:

April 18th, just a few days from now, is the 70th anniversary of Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, in carrier-launched B-25 bombers.  Thi...

Start with a quiet little square in Belgium, a place where nothing really happens.  Then add a little drama...

Scientific papers are not generally noted for their literary qualities (or even for their readability!).  So to see a such a science paper e...

Wednesday night is “pot pie night” at the Descanso Junction Restaurant , and we were there last night.  At right is the chicken pot pie th...

It's not often that your reaction to reading a legal document is “Hey, that was pleasant !”  Check out the right-hand column in the lin...

Ptilotus spathulatus, aka “cat's paw” or ”pussytails”.  I saw this while in Australia, back in the '70s.  They feel just like they l...

This past weekend Debbie ran both Miki and Race in an agility competition.  This was Race's very first such competition.  In the video b...

Look closely at this time-lapse movie and you'll see a line of “stars” that don't move as the real stars rotate.  Those are geostati...

Andy Firth talks about a topic I've posted on several times: It depresses me that so much of what I consider to be essential is simp...

A replacement for SSH?  Better than SSH?  I haven't tried Mosh yet, but I have to say that it looks interesting.  I wonder about it...

Eevee at Fuzzy Notepad really, really doesn't like PHP – and he details the reasons why is great detail.  I was already convinced of PH...

As I was reading this excellent post (at Sultan Knish by David Greenfield) musing on the patterns in human history, one paragraph caught m...