View From The Porch

If somebody else bought a different gun than you, it might mean that you bought the wrong one. But you wouldn't waste your hard-earned ...

Oh. Emm. Gee. I have seen my dream house . Thanks to AngelaG . So I'm watching the Dallas tornado footage in slack-jawed amazement at t...

The other morning, one of the talking heads on the television set referred to 96th Street in Indianapolis as the "Near North Side"...

I finished rereading The Hunger Games trilogy preparatory to maybe catching the flick at a matinee this week sometime. The middle book is a...

Via Unc comes a link to this post where some mocking is going on of a list of " Britain's most unconventional degrees ". For...

As municipal budgets shrink, I would not be surprised to see downsized police departments focus on "guarding the flagpole" and mor...

Can we retire the term "execution-style" from the lexicon in regard to non-state-sanctioned murder? When I hear "the murder v...

Watch Corrine start out at Trayvon Martin, segue smoothly through being caught out in a bald-faced lie on camera, and wind up blaming dead k...

Apparently, if you're under the age of 25 and an SF film buff with absolutely no knowledge of history, the modern world as we know it sp...

Bobbi is doing her usual free-association monologue from the shower. I am walking past the bathroom door on the way to a coffee refill. RX: ...

I'd like to think that somewhere in Pittsfield, New Hamster, an iPad screen was just covered in a fine mist of whole wheat bagel, organi...

Over at P-F.com, a 30-year LE firearms instructor made a good post , but I couldn't help but notice that even he had internalized the wh...

Is how I've felt all day. I've made a half-dozen runs at the keyboard and gave them all up as a bad thing. Maybe better luck in the ...

The dream about escaping from the subterranean Nazi prison camp in the Himalayas with Iman's character from Star Trek VI as a guide was...

Me: " Make sure when we stop at the Antiques Mall on the way back that you lock the car, or someone will put more old radio crap in th...

Brian J. Noggle offers a rumination on The Official Narrative . Orwellian, indeed. .

RX: "I have an idea for curbing the production of paper money: Every bill must be printed with ink containing a certain legally-prescr...

So I killed two birds with one stone the other day. The chimenea on the back patio had suffered enough freeze/thaw cycles that the spalling ...

Wandering the back corridors of YouTube, I ran across this fan video tribute to the Colonial Marines . It's been years since I've ...

2.5 hours in the dentist's chair today, and that wraps everything up except for the main event: The whole root canal/crown thing. I am t...