Exile in Portales

We haz one.  I sent this off to the Mediscare folks today... So, here's me, blissfully cruising along through life with my spiff...

There are a few more on this subject at the Usual Source o' these things.

Heh.

"Truer words," and all that.  Most of this "shutdown" has the look and feel of a particularly inept PR campaign gon...

... if these people workin' for the gub'mint are "non-essential," why were they ever hired in the first place?

I'm bein' sarcastic, in case ya didn't notice, but the Heritage Foundation isn't: The rule now, if you order from Ama...

I did my 2012 taxes this afternoon, seein' as how we were in receipt of our final outstanding 1099s a couple o' few days ago (that ...

" ...it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now ... and the frame is crashing to t...

There were quite a few items about the effects of the looming sequestration action in today's Usual USAF S ource .  Here are two: Se...

So there I was, getting ready to watch Notre Dame kick the Hell outta Michigan... in South Bend... and I pulled the teevee guide up to make...

... in The Daily Mail : Pakistani man dies after inhaling fumes from burning American flags at anti-Islam film rally Heh.  Congrats t...

We're just back from our bi-weekly beer and commissary run out to Cannon Airplane Patch and we were looking forward to another episode o...

Charles Krauthammer is good today .  He's good every day but today's piece really hits the mark.  If I was one of those guys who d...

Well, except for this (caution: lotsa F-bombs and various other unpleasantness): Jesse Ventura might be a former SEAL and a former governo...

Although this article in New Scientist is UK-centric (written by Scots climate scientist (hunh?) David Reay ), you might find " Five e...

... to the incredible outrage over yesterday's announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed & Co will be tried in New York for the 9/11 ...

Jules Crittenden writing about  the AP report that The One has rejected all the Afghanistan "options" presented to him so far......

First the bad news ... which you already know unless you're currently under your favorite big-ass rock or in a coma: WASHINGTON – In a ...

Heads up, you vets... and maybe even active duty folks, too.  From DarkReading , via a tweet from cyberwar : A defective hard drive contain...