Exile in Portales

My Buddy Ed In Florida sends along the following: My wife nagged and nagged at me to put up the Christmas lights. Well, I finally got the...

…to dump IE and get Firefox . From The Guardian ( UK ): Microsoft is releasing a patch for the flaw in its Internet Explorer browser, w...

You can’t make this stuff up . To wit: Still can't think what to get him for Christmas? Socks don't seem to cut it any more? Fre...

... for a good Christmas story? Well, how about a great Christmas story? You should go read my Blog-Bud Jim's post today, then. You w...

Or perhaps I hate Internet Explorer, I dunno. Whatever or whichever... If you use Internet Exploder to view EIP you're missing FOUR... ...

... from Blog-Bud Mike : I loves me a good double-entendre, but this one is just over the top. The woman's expression at the very end o...

… to the family. Grandma Alisa sent out photos of our newest arrival last evening. Granddaughter Anastasia gave birth to great-granddaught...

... and this year's no exception. I'm without water and it's a self-inflicted wound. My water lines are froze up, even though ...

I came across this ol' video (ten minutes) of Laura at the 2005 White House Correspondents' Dinner: You've probably seen this vi...

That's great-grandson Taurean with Mom Amanda above. Taurean is one year old today... but the celebration was yesterday. And Mom's...

… that would be us here at El Casa Móvil De Pennington, Gentle Reader. But not in a good way. Observe, specifically the wind speed and g...

…tomorrow evening at 2100 hrs (EST). Here’s a trailer (four minutes)… I’ve seen a lot of preview activity for this show on C-SPAN thi...

Good Friend Lori out in the Bay Area Soviet Socialist Republic sends along a link to this : Room for Rent -- Inauguration Day/ObamaCon 20...

Via blog-bud Phlegmmy ... the inimitable Bettie Page died yesterday. The vid is work-safe, unless your workplace has something against be...

Yesterday was profoundly weird in a physical sense. I was up until all hours Wednesday night/Thursday morning as is my habit… I finally gav...

Or, more appropriately: junk mail. Political junk mail. I only check my snail-mail box once a week or so, but it appears the RNC is a ...

Vanity Fair has a photographic reprise of 2008 on its web site which is quite unlike most any other "Best of (the year in question)...

A screenshot from memeorandum this morning: Yeah, OK. Right. Everyone who's anyone has something to say about this brouhaha, however...

There's a light dusting of snow on the ground, too, but it's the wind that makes it Not Nice outside. Glad we don't have anywhe...

OK… I’ve seen this meme all over the place in my Daily Reads. I wasn’t going to participate, coz it’s VERY similar to that 150 Things post...