Exile in Portales

Dan Boyle... in overtime , in his own net: This after three periods of scoreless hockey.  I feel bad about Sunday's Red Wings loss b...

I just turned on my teevee and am gratified to see those surprisin' Habs are ahead of those disappointin' Caps... 2 - 1.  Ovechkin g...

Last night was almost TOO much excitement... and El Casa Móvil De Pennington was literally rockin'.  We got off to a rocky start last ...

... so far: I saw only teeny-tiny bits of Vancouver's Green Men last night but what little I DID see made me laugh.  OK, hats off to ...

I thought the above is quite appropriate for the day, eh?  I did my taxes last week in an effort to avoid the rush... as I usually do.  But...

The Goo Goo Dolls from Former Happy Days... Do you wake up on your own And wonder where you are? You live with all your faults I wa...

Well... in Russian eyes.  We're speaking of this: We got a significant amount of rain last evening (like all freakin' night, to b...

As Gutfeld noted... that was a BOY.  Draw your own conclusions.  (We've decided to be sexist rather than racist... for a while, anyhoo...

Tonight we begin what will hopefully turn out to be a long and deep run in the playoffs.  I say that every year, of course.  And Dee-troit...

I received an e-mail from the good folks at the MLK Memorial organization asking if I'd be kind enough to publicize fund-raising to esta...

Thanks, Phlegmmy .  My new favorite song: Polly Jean has it right.  I want a woman who thinks of me like this.  And vice versa... I can...

I 've always found the imagery in this ad bizarre if not downright creepy: The very idea of a luminescent butterfly flitting about t...

This song has been covered by lots and lots of folks... Bonnie Raitt does it better than most: But the version we heard while sitting our...

We haven't had a computer event in over 30 hours now and we think we may have fixed our issue .  Windows, as everyone knows (and NO comm...

A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday’s life Somewhere a queen is weeping Somewhere a king has no wife And the wi...

Excerpts from some recent Air Force Association Daily Reports on this subject: DeMIRVing: The United States will reduce the nuclear paylo...

So... we just got back from the mail kiosk a few minutes ago... and here's what we found in today's mail: We've been absolutel...

Most of the " 12 Greatest Geek Tattoos " aren't all that funny... but this one made me smile (click for larger): Yeah.  I...

We've had a rash of computer "events" over the past 48 hours... in the form of sudden, no-warning, complete and total shut dow...

Beer?  Check. Cigars?  Check.  Multiple. Single-malt?  Check.  Multiples thereof, too.  But not to excess, of course.   We were safe to dr...