Exile in Portales

Ah…dog poop. Probably one of the (very) minor reasons my second marriage failed…coz The Second Mrs. Pennington was largely in charge of ...

So. On my way home from the base early this afternoon I passed a young guy on a sport bike going in the opposite direction. As is custo...

The Western Conference Finals are off to a good start… Helene St. James writes : The Red Wings paid as hard a physical price as they ha...

Christopher Hitchens, writing in the June issue of Vanity Fair ( Londonistan Calling ) : In the aftermath of the 7/7 bombings, which killed...

You find the coolest things on these Intertubes… Yesterday while I was reading the Miata newsgroup I subscribe to I decided to check out o...

Here’s a great lil story about Bob Probert …one of my past heroes (until he got busted for transporting cocaine in his underwear from Winds...

Interesting: “ My life without Google .” A lot of people bitch about Google and all the data they collect about us, but James Thomas i...

Laurie is back from the MilBlog conference in Dee See and has a narrative and pictures . Good stuff, there! It seems like all I’ve been d...

An American Institution , as seen by the Brits and written about in The Times (UK) : “ Kentucky shows off its racy side to the royals .” I...

A John Hiatt song popped into my mind as I read this way-cool article in the NYT’s Travel section this morning. First, the Hiatt lyric (...

Well, the weather sure sucked today, but the hockey was excellent : DETROIT -- Dominik Hasek slowly skated out of his goal, bent down an...

Here’s a brilliant site for those of us who are in love with the language: World Wide Words . Michael Quinion, the site’s author, has qui...

Justice prevails… according to Eric Duhatschek at The Toronto Globe and Mail : SAN JOSE — Sometimes, justice can prevail, even in the fic...