Take no prisoners...   Afghanistan has ordered its soldiers and police not to take Taliban prisoners – but to kill them outright instead .  ...

Worried about Curiosity's wheel wear issues?   Here's a very detailed article about it ...

What the engineer should know about programming...   A magazine article from 1957 .  Things have changed just a tad since then :)

Who needs that damned Constitution, anyway?   Certainly not King President Obama ! Related thought: do you suppose any foreign politicia...

Barn: pier footing forms...   Our builder finished these yesterday afternoon, but the field was too wet and mucky for a concrete truck to ge...

The EPA deals in political propaganda, not science...   Warren Meyer of CoyoteBlog seems to be surprised by this . I am not.  I would exp...

Lois Lerner had a Blackberry...   That's significant because some of her emails would have been stored on that device.  But the IRS dest...

Airstrikes in Libya ... were conducted by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates , acting on their own.  They didn't coordinate the strikes...

The best of Harry Reid...   Now there's a sentence I didn't expect I'd ever write!

Ok, he wins ... best ice bucket challenge evah! Farmers rule!

Think about it...

Barn: initial backfill is complete! All the pit run needed is in. Despite our recent rains (over 2" in just the past few days) mak...

Philae candidate landing sites!   The ESA has released the list of eight candidate landing sites for the Philae lander.  Later this fal...

I recommend RealClearScience ...   And this manifesto they've just published nicely sums up why.  The list at the end is in line with m...

Why do I study physics?   Very nicely done!

Triton flyby...   The just-released movie at right shows a robotic space explorer's flyby of Triton, Neptune's moon.  If you follo...

California leads the way ... in drunk state Senator driving .  Hueso is from San Diego, not all that far from Jamul...

Once speculation, now admitted...   The U.S. government is now admitting that they do, in fact, have all of Lois Lerner's emails on back...

The Neo-Neocons...   This editorial by Bret Stephens, in today's Wall Street Journal, caught my eye both because of the author and the ...

Why do Nigerian scammers say they're from Nigeria?   The Nigerian email scams are notorious – the butt of jokes, and everyone knows abo...