Exile in Portales

...is a funny thing.  In watching and reading about the fallout from the Massachusetts election yesterday I kept hearing the words "fru...

We not only smoke our stogies here at El Casa Móvil De Pennington , we read about 'em, too.  So this is what we're both smoking and...

I'd try it.  And that's saying a LOT, since I've long had nothing but contempt for Nikka's products.  But my contempt is b...

I've seen eleventy-lebben of these , on everything from Beemers ("I wanted a HONDA!"), to football, to all sorts of political...

h/t: The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists

I had to go look for the tune since it hit my mind earlier... and there it was.  We are just SO random today.

My Mom used to have this saying back when I was a kid: "We're too poor to even pay attention!"  At least she was the first per...

So... browsing around in SiteMeter I happened upon a mystery entry in my referral pages and I checked it out, natch'ly.  And saw this (t...

I was gonna save this for tomorrow but I can't wait.  It's just too cool. Lifted from AirPigz ... who note, quite rightly: This i...

Via a Tweet from Chap ... this dude: Well, there's SO much wrong here I don't know where to begin.  But you can get the full story ...

We have some local skin in the game down in Haiti.  From the ABQ Journal : Medical personnel deployed Sunday are in addition to two aircraf...

Today is the holiday but Dr. King's birthday was actually this past Friday.  This is what I put up last year around this time: MLK ...

That would be part of  today's Happy Hour soundtrack. 'Cause I've been up and down this highway Far as my eyes can see No ma...

The Second Mrs. Pennington advises me she shared the above photo of herfineself with Best Friend Junko.  In so doing she included Junko'...

This is what we'll be doing at today's Happy Hour which will kick off as soon as I hit "publish," seeing as how this tasty...

A friend sends this along... Students at school were asked to write about the harmful environmental effects of oil on fish. One 11-year ol...

Well, about ten minutes ago.  The scene: me, sitting outside.  Partaking of Happy Hour, cigar in one hand and pint glass containing a 2 Belo...

Well.  The scanning is all done, or as much as I intend to do.  Herewith the final installments of my Beijing posts. ―:☺:― A Lengthy Remi...

A couple o' few days ago I put up some photos of a bid'niz trip The Second Mrs. Pennington and I took to Beijing back in 1991 and s...