Cache Valley scene...   This is the scene this morning from the lot adjacent to my realtor's office.  I took it just after sunrise, lo...

What is this?  As you drive north on I-15, just before you cross over from California to Nevada you'll see these three towers.  Each...

Intermittent blogging alert!   I'm back up in Utah (drove all day yesterday), and I'll be up here for a couple of weeks doing the no...

Ajanta Caves...   My mom sent me some photos of this place, located slightly west of the geographic center of India.  I had never heard of...

We live in ridiculously convenient times...   That's the first sentence of a Wall Street Journal piece by Dave Barry (actually an excerp...

Pater: We were manly men before we were ten...   Another post from my brother Scott, with a story about our dad: We were manly men before ...

I tow the line...   A liberal (identified as only as DGCJ) writes something and uses the phrase “I tow the party line” – plainly meaning “I ...

The view from Mars...   Well, what it would be, if you were riding atop Curiosity!

The shame of That One...  Niall Ferguson on America's global retreat .  Very sad, for us old-fashioned Americans.  The progressives are...

Fort Caroline found – in the wrong place...   Fort Caroline was the first French settlement in the U.S., long believed to have been near pr...

Solar time vs. local time...   Here's a wonderful map ( full resolution version ) of the difference between Solar time and local time...

More Mann-ly takedown...   From the irreplaceable Steve McIntyre, of course.  This time he demolishes Mann's characterization of the Mui...

Ukraine – events happening too fast to keep up with...   It appears that in the past 24 hours, a peace agreement was signed, a truce immedia...

Working 1 to 5...   Wait, what???  Reason and Remy, together again...

The Mann he loves...   Michael Mann, the posturing, stuffed-hat, litigation-prone “climatologist” from Penn State filed a libel suit against...

A murmuration of starlings...   Beautiful mini-documentary, sent to me by reader Simi L...

Farmer's Almanac: 1, NOAA: 0...   The Farmer's Almanac predicted an unusually cold winter this year .  The NOAA did not.  Neither di...

What's the alternative to ObamaCare?   Well, at one point we had BushCare proposed .  I didn't pay much attention to it at the time,...

Music of the printer...   I'm a big Wallace & Grommit fan, so naturally their theme played on a dot-matrix printer is my favorite ...

They have free time all week long!   10 tips for Japanese travelers to the U.S.   I've always found it interesting to learn how other cu...