Exile in Portales

Mebbe, but... ummm... interesting, none the less. There isn't a man alive who hasn't sat waiting... patiently or otherwise... for...

We got resupplied with cee-gars today, opting this time for a box o' Acid Blondies , our favorite small cigar.  Small cigars are good be...

We were disparaging when last we spoke of our elder brothers-in-arms (the Sea Service bein' SO much older than us Air Pups), so we shal...

Mainly coz o' this: Yeah, we cherry-picked the extreme WX reporting location for effect.  It's really only about a hunnert degrees...

Alternate title: "So It's Come to This."  The first-ever presidential debate on Twitter ... policy positions in 140 character...

Blog-Bud Darryl has a recommendation for vacation travelers today, which essentially sez: "Get off them Interstates!"  I commente...

It's a cool one today... I never see these things unless I stumble upon 'em by accident, which was the case today (by checkin...

* After Dinner Whiskey Hour, in case you're in need of explanation.  OTOH, you could always google it .  Numbah THREE, Bay-bee! So.  Th...

... and back again.  Went over to The Big(ger) City™ to pick up a new pair of readers and found they gave me the wrong strength once I got...

Yup... another one bites the dust. ZOMG.  They're fallin' like flies... Tonight's After Dinner Whiskey Hour Soundtrack: Keep...

The Blue Angles (NOT a typo) 'Stang : If you ever dreamed of being part of the famed Blue Angels ( sic ) air demonstration team, here...

"She" bein' Peggy Noonan, writing in Saturday's WSJ .  Here's a piece-part: Pretty much everyone over 50 in America fe...

Another dead soldier, which means it's time to bring up the reserves... and one can plainly see they're rarin' to go. Today...

Which was originally published on a Sunday four years ago.  An Occasional Correspondent and I were having a discussion about beer and brew p...

Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove in my car Thinkin' that I might have drove ya too far... I was also thinkin' about the ...

(sigh) That would be $16,120.70... for those of you who keep score.   Wanna read the tasting notes?  Go here .

All these folks seem to be having a good time (especially the two in the closet, before the credits begin to run), even though they also s...

Some people have more time... and money... than they know what to do with.  Still and even, watching guitar strings reverberate in real-ti...

Think pink ? Google+  attracted a lot more men than women out of the gate—everybody seems to agree about that. The question is, how much of...

It was a Grateful Dead kinda afternoon... Gone are the days when the ox fall down, Take up the yoke and plow the fields around. Gone are ...