Exile in Portales

Things are a lot quieter in the neighborhood now that final exams are over at ENMU . My two closest neighbors have packed up and gone home...

Some time ago I wrote I was finding it hard to stay motivated, politically speaking, and to continue writing about political stuff. This ...

Mothers Day is usually a painful day for me. Some years I get off easy and the memories are held in check. Other years the memories flo...

Mother and Child Mary Cassatt (1888) Call your Mom.

This past Monday I told you my favorite columnists are Charles Krauthammer (2), Christopher Hitchens (12) and Victor Davis Hanson (5). It ...

‘Net connection update: I tried to post a couple of times yesterday evening but couldn’t. On those few occasions when my connection was “...

Posting will be light to non-existent today. I’m suffering from an intermittent and slow network connection, when the connection is actual...

...it always comes back to haunt you. If you scroll down to one of my hockey posts you'll find I said "only a fool would bet again...

One more thing before I hit the streets to run a few errands. Lileks’ latest Screedblog is just too funny for words…excerpt: News story...

We can change the world - Re-arrange the world It's dying - if you believe in justice It's dying - and if you believe in freedom ...

Cars. And more cars. In honor of Cinquo de Mayo, Iowahawk puts up the definitive treatise on Lowriders , that unmistakable and wonderful...

About that Atwar Bahjat execution video I commented on yesterday: the video is a hoax. The beheading shown in the video is indeed real, bu...

For commenter Sam at Mahablog: I meant to include this in the post below, but forgot. I have "word verification" turned on in th...

The mystery over Porter Goss’ abrupt departure as DCI continues. I slept in way too late this morning and didn’t catch Tony Snow’s premier...

...regular programming resumes tomorrow.

I had quite the scare last evening. Even though I take all the usual (and some un usual) precautions, I somehow managed to become infected...

...from Rodger . And, just for the record, I find both groups disturbing. But the group on the right disturbs me a whole Helluva lot m...

Have you seen the Zarqawi Bloopers Video yet? The one where he mishandles an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW)? It was all over the news...

Well, I did my part: I washed the car yesterday. And that worked in a very small way: it did rain, technically. To say it rained is a ...

OK, I’m an Old Fart, I freely admit it. But don’t you find the results of a recent survey of young people’s geographic knowledge disturbi...