View From The Porch

Voice From The TV: "Libyan rebels say that if Gadahfi is caught, he will be tried, and executed by a firing squad." Me: ...

My first good belly laugh of the morning. I needed that.

Lafayette, Indiana, home of the low-speed riding lawnmower chase and rogue heifers that attack cops on the city streets , may be a sleepy s...

Sean at An NC Gun Blog has opened his October 22nd shooting event to his readership. Said shooting event is going to be a one-day, 8-hour H...

I can hear The Today Show faintly in the other room. It seems we are well and truly reaching the climax of our national month-long banque...

Me: " Boomslang! Boomslang! " RX: "Actually, it's pronounced 'boomslahng'." Me: " Yes, but tha...

Well, we have high gas prices, gold is up, the economy's stagnant, and now the president's relatives are getting likkered up in publ...

On this date in 1422, Henry V, one of the studliest of English Kings and a dead ringer for Kenneth Branagh (at least in my mind's eye) p...

I think this guy's an Inland Bearded Dragon, but he has acquired the nickname "Bust-A-Pose lizard", due to his exquisitely evo...

Two handy tools I discovered on the internets and have used frequently ever since: Billy Beck's " cannibal pot " analogy for ...

...but assuming the God Squad actually got their fantasy Constitutional Amendment Defining Marriage , what would happen to all those queer f...

RX: "I grew up in a part of the country lousy with artesian wells. It was neat to be walking through a pasture or woodlot and see a ho...

So, the other day, I was going to refer to Wouter's Blog in a post as "antipodean". Out of curiosity, I went to see what Wiki...

Folk musician Woodie Guthrie, named after Mussolini's hero and New Jersey governor Woodie Wilson, was an icon of the Old Left in America...

In a slow-on-the-draw (get it?) editorial from the Orlando Sentinel, all the usual cliches get trotted out to bemoan Florida's " fi...

All that dough spent on the space program and gigantic radio-telescopes, all that grant money used to let grad students while away late nigh...

Friend-of-a-Friend: "I also got this German Dreyse .32 with a cracked frame. They were so desperate for guns to issue to... here, look...

My first post on this blog was six years ago today. I hadn't a clue what I was doing or why I was doing it. Six years, 7,915 posts, ...

I swear to Mises, if Ayn Rand had put a scene in Atlas Shrugged where the federal environmental cops were raiding musical instrument manufa...

Unc links to a tale of an elderly couple who botched a suicide pact that involved shooting themselves in the grape. Apparently whatever the...