Konani, bringer of cat toy terror...

Stuffed, I am...  We just finished our early lunch, feasting on Debbie's latest delight: a chicken casserole featuring (lots of) poblan...

Oh, look what Curiosity found now!   If you look closely at that photo, you'll see two little “craters” in the sand, each with what lo...

Really?   Michael Brooks is a physicist (Ph.D. in quantum physics from the University of Sussex in England), and a noted science writer.  H...

Two minutes of kitten...   This is little Konani (that appears to be the name that he's stuck with), on one of his “outings” to our of...

Dogs discovering snow...   Via my lovely Valentine...

Paradise ponders...   Our downstairs heater (we have a separate one for the second floor) is giving us trouble.  It keeps shutting down, wit...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says ... that Obamacare costs will rise by 60% over the next decade .  In other words, the Obamacare ...

Get some Kleenex ... and watch this...

Do you like persimmons?  If you do, try Trader Joe's unsweetened, unsulfured dried California persimmons.  They are hands-down the best...

Nic Lewis ... writing at Climate Audit, demolishes another Thermageddonist paper ...

Music video in weightlessness...   Pretty darned cool!  This was done inside an aircraft flying a parabolic arc.  I'm amazed how long ...

I have a dream!   Via my pistol-packing, woodpecker-sighting mama...

Why do people go to emergency rooms?  Man, there were a lot of surprises in here for me, starting with #1...

Sawed off in Paradise...   For about three hours this morning, we were cut off from the Internet  (“sawed off” in IT lingo).  Quite a bit of...

Oh, yes...   A thousand times yes!

A rimey morning in Paradise...   It's cold this morning, but it's also foggy.  That combination means that rime is forming on any s...

Paradise Porcupine ponders...   That's Porcupine Reservoir , which we took a short drive up to last night.  We'd heard from a fellow...

Sneezes...   More than you ever wanted to know , or (especially) see...

They're counting on you being stupid...   The American political parties, I mean.  There's a form of corruption that is, so far as I...