Remember the derby cars sawed in my shop last week?   Alan L. sent over this photo of Nick L. with his finished “wookie board” car.  Nice!...

This is being reported ... as the sinking of a battleship, to make an artificial reef. Uh, no . That's not a battleship, not even...

We're so glad we left California...   After reading this, I wonder if Victor Davis Hanson might be following us someday soon .  Depressi...

You don't often hear something like this ... from a dedicated progressive.  Just listen!

I want you to know ... that Mia Love is a Utahan, and a Republican representative to Congress.  Look what she's proposing .  Ain't ...

Wait a minute...   In last night's Iowa caucuses, on the Democratic side there were six precincts where the ballots were tied – evenly s...

Comet 67P...   Every time I look at one of these images, I marvel that I live in an age where I can sit in my living room and look at phot...

So the Iowa caucuses are over...   What did we learn? Not much, I think.  The big loser would appear to be The Hillary – a tie with an oct...

An amazing visualization tool...  Free, on the web, and it works in your favorite web browser.  It's called “ earth ”, and it lets yo...

The math was settled ...   There is no such thing as an irrational number (that is, a number that cannot be exactly defined as the ratio of ...

I tried ... to get interested in tonight's caucuses (caucusi? see note below.) in Iowa.  I tried to even care .  But I failed.  Tonight...

Paradise ponders...  Well, the snow finally stopped sometime last night.  This morning, after the sun came up and was shining nicely, I wen...

Uh oh...   Curiosity may have a problem ...

I've never been able to fathom ... why so many people are attracted to socialism.  The inevitable outcome isn't exactly attractive ...

Collision imminent!   A giant cloud of gas (weighing more than a million suns) is headed for the Milky Way galaxy at 700,000 MPH .  It wil...

The Square Red Nebula...   Via APOD , of course.  What a bizarre celestial object !  Click to embiggen...

Things I did not know, part 54,903,112...   StrategyPage 's article on suicide bombings includes this paragraph (emphasis mine): In b...

I've neglected to mention ... a piece of clothing I recently bought, that's making me even more comfortable outside in cold weather...

Dang it!   The storm stopped around 1:30 pm, and the forecast said little chance of more, and the weather radar showed nothing on the way – ...

Newton ... or Haukea (white snow in Hawai'ian), or Haunani (beautiful snow) ... all these names are under consideration.  He's on...