A nice day in Paradise...   Miki, Race, and I started off with our usual walk.  The skies were notably hazy.  We've read that the haze i...

“A Disgrace to the Profession”   That's the title of Mark Steyn's latest book , which I read yesterday.  I bought it without high ex...

Progress in Paradise...   Yesterday started out with a big step for Debbie: her first physical therapy after breaking her knee's “knuckl...

Televangelist expose ... by John Oliver.  Both hilarious and thought-provoking.  My favorite line: Praise be to the IRS, that most perm...

Speechless, I am...   This is either the all-time best political ad evah , or it's the work of a complete lunatic.  Hell, maybe it...

A negative example of state government...   California, of course.  This site has a compendium of California governance incompetence that i...

M1... The Crab Nebula.  Via APOD , of course.  Full resolution image here ...

Developing from scratch...   This article really piqued my interest.  It discusses something I've run into quite often, but hadn't ...

Animations of mechanisms...   Fascinating stuff .  Perusing this page led me to another interesting site, too: all about wooden gears an...

Anchors away!   I ran across this photo, which brought back memories of some excitement on the USS Long Beach, when I served on it.  We di...

Glass houses...   Houses made of glass bottles .  Amazing!  Via my pistol-packing, Macified (Windows no longer lives at her house!) mama.....

Don't say “alien”!   At least not in California .  We escaped in just the nick of time.  From our current perch in Utah, it looks like J...

Morning in Paradise...   It's a special day for us: our 34th wedding anniversary.  It hardly seems possible that so much time has passed...

Just another day in Paradise...   Debbie and I had a lovely day today.  We went to Herm's for breakfast.  I had their “Florentine Benedi...

The Great Unlearning...   Bill Whittle on Afterburner ...

3%   That's the percentage of Democrats who think Hillary is telling the truth about the email server .  Wow. Then there's this :...

Headline of the day...   At Hot Air ...

Just trying to help, for crying out loud!   Via my lovely bride: Today I had to go to Lowe's. As I approached the entrance, I noticed ...

NSA announces plans ... to transition to a cryptography suite resistant to attacks by quantum computers .  I'll take that as confirmati...

Your Friday afternoon awesome...   Full-screen it and kick back...