View From The Porch

The heat wave is definitely here. Just before sunrise this morning it was 77℉ and 90% humidity and I'm afraid that's as good as it...

Using Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market platform, they made bets on the fires — how they would grow, how long they would las...

A 2019-2024 Bentley Continental GTC. This is the lesser model, with the 542 horsepower twin turbo 4.0L V-8 and not the 6.0L twin turbo W12, ...

The Sunday morning political talking head shows were abuzz with the latest rounds of high explosive tag in the Persian Gulf: Iran drones som...

Went for my walk around the block this morning just minutes before local sunrise. Air temperature was 74℉ and the dew point was also 74℉. In...

Happy one hundredth birthday to a true national treasure, Mel Brooks!

If your laptop or phone is getting long in the tooth, the best time to upgrade is three months ago: How the AI boom is driving an inflationa...

So after nine years one of the two batteries (the smaller of the two) on the cordless lawnmower gave up the ghost. The label said "Pou...

Russian frigate sent to watch over "shadow fleet" tankers moving through the English Channel is now itself low on fuel and driftin...

Me: * spends literal decades on the internet trying to explain to people that there’s not a dial labeled ”GAS PRICES” on the Resolute desk...

I'm just wrapping up reading Murphy's Law: My Journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to Investigative Journalist , and found it qu...