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Beretta 96D and Beretta Airlight pocket knife. (Note the clever placement of other "Beretta Lifestyle" items in the photo. The mar...

Okay, I know that all the professional critics have been piling on this dog for the last week or so, but far be it from me to pass up the c...

Jeff at Alphecca has his Weekly Check up, and this week it includes a blurb from lying reporter Ken Schram of KOMO-TV in Seattle. I'm ...

I think I'm in love . Not only can you take it everywhere, it also looks like a prop from a hip, low-bujit BBC sci-fi series. Plus, it...

Sorry about the light posting for the last two days. Remember that flu I got over about two weeks ago? Well, it (or its cousin) suddenly rem...

... is Opening Day . Hooray!

From the AP : "That trust was shattered Saturday morning, when Huff opened fire in a house full of ravers dressed like zombies in dark ...

...that I was maybe the only woman in America going through messy break-up type stuff in 1995 who didn't buy a copy of Jagged Little Pil...

The 52nd Weekly Carnival of Cordite is up as a fabulous double issue. See new stuff . Stroll down Memory Lane .

Guess what I just found on Amazon? A copy of The Barbarian Princess , by Laura Buchanan, which is supposedly the absolute best historical bo...

Heh. Denise speaks truth . Incidentally, a less-than-totally-firm grip on a Desert Eagle in .50AE seems to cause the brass to fly straight b...

The title alone is enough to get me spun up: " Women Getting Trigger Happy ". It seems to hover somewhere in tone between "Ai...

...yeah, you. The Comcast user browsing with Firefox. Congratulations for being the 50,000th visitor at View From The Porch. Email me to col...

...go read the Weekly Check On The Bias over at Alphecca. It's a good 'un this week. There's some drollery regarding various of...

" Kitty lives overseas, and has to work in a sweatshop for Kathy Lee Gifford. Won't you please give to the Legless Kitty Fund? ...

Marko: Kindergarteners in Cancun . LawDog: Secret Agent Man . Les Jones: Going to Yankeeland. Voluntarily . Xavier Thoughts: Don't let ...

Stephen Bodio alerts us to a new silly law being proposed in the Land Of Silly Laws (also known as California.) Alarmed to find out that th...

Via LawDog , I find out that yesterday was " Meatout 2006 ", a day for the more shrill-voiced of the tofuista set to sanctimonious...

First, Google told the .gov to go piss up a rope . Then a judge announced he was going to order Google to fink . Now he has apparently order...

It's sleeting outside. Hard enough to knock the blossoms from the pear trees. Festive.