View From The Porch

Three hours in the chair with Almost-A-Doctor Mandy yesterday. Lots of smoke. And lots more where that came from. That was my first time ...

So some entertainment blogger wants to put me in a camp, and even muses on how good a second civil war would feel. To quote Robb Allen: Go a...

It was an idea that was kicked around a lot when I worked there, and now it looks like it's happening: Coal Creek Armory is opening anot...

To show how serious they are about slashing costs, Congress has eliminated the congressional page program , claiming that it cost $5,000,000...

From the LuckyGunner blogger shoot: A KRISS Super V with EOTech and Da Switch.

One evening last week, when Bobbi's nephew finished up his paint-scrapery on the house for the day, Bobbi offered to feed him, and so of...

So, watch any of the political shows over the weekend? Boy, that was a nasty little round of accusations over the credit downgrade, wasn...

Under this video of Travis Haley at S.W.A.T. Magazine 's Facebook page, somebody commented "Sharks have Travis week." I LO...

Just in case you like messing with corn futures with your pocket change... And things might get a little interesting in the live cattle mar...

Well, it was an online poll. I'd imagine that if they had mailed out the poll on postage-paid cards in American Rifleman that the numb...

Apparently the helicopter that went down was carrying some guys from DEVGRU. No word if they were the same guys who pulled off the Abbottab...

A Chinook helicopter went down in Afghanistan last night, killing all aboard. I know this because the TeeWee newsreader this morning said ...

Driving through Broad Ripple the other day, I ran up behind an elderly Volvo with a faded "HOPE" sticker and one that said "V...

Phlegmmie linked to this awesome Google Earth view of the cloud of satellites orbiting Earth. If you had asked me to guess how many there ...

Some kids at the Virginia Tech campus called the cops and said they saw a guy sort of carrying something that might be a gun, maybe. New Yor...

A new gun blog, Rational Gun , has an informative post up on the development of the Knight's SR-25 EM, a shorty .308 AR-type carbine. T...

With all the Media fawning over their Pharaoh's birthday today, for some reason I can't shake this mental picture of Chris Matthews ...

Interesting view of an interesting place over at Roomie's blog, if you haven't seen it yet. .

The other night, the thermostat at Roseholme Cottage cut the air conditioner off at 0mygod30 and the silence woke me up, so steady a presenc...

Via Bayou Renaissance Man : In trying to determine exactly how the universe came into existence, scientists have been recreating sub-atomic...