Morning in Paradise...   Very early this morning – at about 12:30 AM – we were awakened by the loud crashing of thunder all around us.  For...

Greeks apologize with huge horse...   I laughed out loud when I read this , sent along by friend, reader, and former colleague Doug W.  Th...

Opportunity: the movie...   We mean the Opportunity rover on Mars, of course...

How does the TSA decide if someone might be a terrorist?  These are taken directly from the TSA's internal guidelines...

Pluto or bust!  At right is the latest photo from the New Horizons robotic space probe.  It's by far the best image of Pluto ever obt...

Back from the endodontist ... and I got to keep my tooth.  At right is an X-ray (click to embiggen) of my tooth after the root canal was ...

There is the possibility now ... that the 2016 presidential race will be Trump v. Sanders.  In which case the four or five non-U.S. governm...

Unpredictable blogging alert...   Unpredictable?  What means he?  I mean that I'm going in to have a tooth worked on this morning, and...

Evening in Paradise...   Our new routine in the evening is to let Mo'i out into “his” backyard for him to amble at his own pace, while M...

Quotes on the Internet...   Via reader Simi L.  Hah!

On the other hand ... we're now at 0.95" for this storm, with still more to come.  The forecast was for 0.4", so the weatherm...

Any twinge of hopefulness I was feeling today ... was completely destroyed by reading this story . Some commenters said that the judge (a...

Many scientists are waking up to the fraud that is Big Climate Change...   Here's one more ...

Is there any hope?   Maybe not.  Just FYI: silver is going for about $15 an ounce on the spot market today...

Kozinski on the criminal justice system in the U.S.   Awesome !

Dione, moon of Saturn...   Via APOD , of course.  Taken by the Cassini robotic space probe.  The big dimly lit orb is Saturn itself, and i...

Morning in Paradise...   We woke a little late for us – around 5:30 am.  I got up and let Mo'i out into our back yard, which he has take...

New backups in Paradise...   Well, that was totally painless!  The hardest part of bringing up our new backup RAID was ... unpacking it.  T...

Progress in Paradise...   It was so beautiful here this morning that I just couldn't stand to work inside, despite the fact that all my ...

Are medical screening tests valuable?  The answer isn't always as clear as you might think.  Study the chart for breast cancer screenin...