People ask me things...   Such as this, in my email this morning: Have you ever actually fired a gun at someone? No, I have not. But th...

Spoons kill!   Via my lovely bride: Today I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 870 right in the doorway. I gave it 5 s...

Quote of the Day goes to Drew M., posting at Ace of Spades HQ , for this shocker: I miss Jimmy Carter. He explains : Yeah he was awful...

Claude Moore Colonial Farm: 1, President StompyFoot: 0.   First they were amongst the collateral damage from the National Park closures.  No...

CoyoteBlog be hoppin'!  Warren Meyer, the proprietor of CoyoteBlog , has several fascinating posts just in the last day: The True Po...

Naiad lost, now found.   In 1989, the Voyager 2 robotic space probe discovered the inner-most moon of Neptune, dubbed Naiad .  After that,...

The Strange Shutdown.   Peggy Noonan's Wall Street Journal blog post for today.  Her lede: You know, on one level the government shut...

“It could be a breakthrough.”  So says Paul Ryan, writing today in the Wall Street Journal .  He's talking about the currently-squander...

U.S. leading the way – to ignorance and inability.  In this study, performance of U.S. adults is exceptional only in the sense of how poo...

Parbuckling the Concordia .   Lots of great pictures in the article ...

“Pathetic.”   Yesterday The One held a press conference and took questions, something that doesn't happen very often with him.  Consider...

ObamaCare fails – the list .

Extinct tree resurrected from 2,000 year old seed.   The Judean date palm, Phoenix dactlifera .  This plant has been nicknamed “Methusela...

Modular phone?   Friend, former colleague, and Idaho mogul Doug S. passes along the video at right that describes a proposed new mobile ph...

Shutdown theater:   my lovely bride says that we should put some orange cones and Barrycades around his house.  Yeah, I think we can all ...

Clydesdales!   A collection of Budweiser ads...

Prescription booze. Yup, during Prohibition doctors could prescribe alcohol , up to one pint at a time.  I'd run into that little fa...

Background noise.   Here's a whole website dedicated to letting you listen to the kind of background noise you want .  Do you like the...

He must be off his meds.   The California legislature passed a bill ( AB 1401 ) that would allow permanent legal immigrants to serve on j...

An excellent prank!  You'll want full screen.  I'm no believer in magical powers, but if I were one of the “victims” of this prank...