View From The Porch

I'm finally on the downslope of this flu. Checking back over the blog, I see it was a little over a year since my last bout. I tried to...

To crush your enemies, see them... Wait, that wasn't the question. The question actually asked at this one forum was " What is ...

I'm thankful for all of y'all. I'm thankful for a roof over my head. I'm thankful for my health, even if it seems to hav...

To the news that internet-famous Canton, OH police officer Daniel Harless might possibly, in the face of all common sense, get his job back ...

The past eventually all runs together into a blur. Bobbi, in the other room with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade running on the boo...

RX: "It had Gary Coleman, back when he was cute. Before he became a dead guy." Me: " A crazy dead guy. " RX: ...

Here's an unexpected twist to the socially-networked Nu-Perfect America: Facebook has made modern and digital the quaint Puritan practic...

Still not dead, but beginning to consider the upsides of that condition. Weird and disjointed dreams. I had dysentery in my dream. Now tha...

I am dying at my keyboard. Bobbi is down the hall in her room, watching the news... RX: "Superintendent Wiener?" Me: "...

Oh, lordy, I ache all over. And I'm starting to get a sore throat. And I have a chill. I'm tempted to write this day off as a bad id...

...not anymore, not in this economy. via Twitter .

How to work a Mosin stripper clip . With pictures! Handy guide to food trucks around the nation: Roaming Hunger . Did you know that the...

Re: The Sonny Puzikas incident in Texas... (That's the one where the tactical instructor and alleged Spetznaz vet rolled into a dark sho...

Setting & Dramatis Personae: Bobbi is in front of the microwave preparing tea. I stumble into the kitchen, groaning and looking somewhat...

Almost twenty years ago, my "nightstand gun" was a Smith & Wesson 4006. It had a Laserlyte red laser almost the size of a mode...

They can't put anything on the internet if it isn't true, right? Not even gun safety tips? Like this one at Cheaper Than Dirt'...

The ghost in the spam machine wrote me some poetry. I removed the links and broke it into lines and verses, but the spelling, punctuation,...

A computer used by Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with CIA Director David Petraeus led to his resignation, contained substantial c...

Off to a late start. Nobody I follow on Twitter is awake yet, either. I'm talking to myself... Caffeine-free Tam is not a happy Tam. T...

I had no idea ...