Via my lovely bride.  I don't know if they're real or they're photoshopped, but I like the sentiment: Seen on the back of a ...

A photographer captured this beautiful shot of Race (our border collie who competes in agility) cresting an A-frame obstacle.  Most dogs (in...

Via my lovely bride: The kids filed into class Monday morning. They were all very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something...

Dave Carter over at Ricochet looks at current conditions to see how they map onto the Declaration of Independence .  He concludes with this...

What does it tell us when we discovery that our President simply made up large and important parts of his autobiography ? Mostly it makes ...

Groklaw has it ...

In general, businesses and individuals make decisions more rationally than governments do.  An example from current events gives me some hop...

Debbie and I did a little local four-wheeling today, on a road that was new to us.  This doesn't happen all that often in San Diego Coun...

One of the things that fascinates me about reading history is the way each historian casts his or her own filters on their telling of the ta...

July 4th, our Independence Day, is normally a day I would quietly celebrate.  I'm not feeling much like celebrating this year, for compl...

Via my mom, and attributed to the Maxine cartoon strip: So you're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing ho...

Try this little arithmetic puzzle – it will reveal your favorite movie of all time.  I tried it, and to my absolute amazement, it really wor...

Via my lovely bride:

A great short article on this bizarre chapter of American History...

APOD presents this beautiful photo taken by the Cassini probe, still orbiting Saturn and studying the Saturnian system. 

Over the past year or so, more and more scientists are speculating that all dinosaurs had feathers , not just the few that evolved into tod...

Way back in 1962, the FLIP ship first set sail.  I first learned about it from a science newsletter in my school's library in that same...

My junior high school (in central New Jersey) had a slide rule club, and I was a member.  As I recall, the other members tolerated me mainly...

Rachel Lucas, at your service ...

The short documentary-style ad below gives a fascinating look into a modern manufacturing facility that makes extensive use of industrial ro...