Exile in Portales

Really. Gerard put it up today. And like he said, it was fun while it lasted. All kidding aside...can you visualize life without the ...

Via Lex, Lex on Lex . And blogging, milblogging, the military, politics, the war, and life in general…as interviewed by one Juan Devis o...

Stop Presses! This just in… Well, not really “just in.” Yesterday afternoon a work crew from Yucca Telecom’s fiber-laying contractor ...

I’ve been playing around with Site Meter. Again. What does this mean? Exile in Portales: December 2005 Wakkanai was a surveillance si...

… And didn’t I tell you to get a frickin’ haircut? What’s up with you, lately? Yessir. No excuse, Sir. I’ll do better, I promise. ...

Well, I almost made my noon posting deadline. But Hey! deadlines are oh-so-arbitrary these days. Reader Bec dropped a link in the comments...

Outside: 88 degrees, light rain, calm (yes…you read that correctly. It’s calm . Amazing.). Inside: Coffee nearly finished (note ...

I don’t want to steal Sam’s (SN2) thunder , but… I just had to share at least ONE wedding photo with all y’all. There are many more photos...

Here’s the strangest story I’ve read in a looong time, in today’s WaPo : A grand feast of marinated steaks and jumbo shrimp was winding do...

Victor Davis Hanson , writing in New York ’s City Journal : On July 8, the New York Times ran an historic editorial entitled “The Road Ho...

One the day’s more interesting reads, via Chap …a short biographical sketch of Robert Heinlein in Reason Magazine . July 7 was the centen...

Good news for both Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt and the US Marine Corps: The AP reports the outcome of the Article 32 investigation sur...

Well. Today’s self-imposed post-by-noon deadline has been well and truly blown, nu? I don’t have much to offer in the way of excuses, ...

Note: you might not want to view this at work. While there is no nudity or naughty bits on display, the theme is most definitely sexual i...

It's hot...89 degrees at 1145 a.m. And it's gonna get jes a lil bit hotter before it's all over today. But it ain't as hot...

Maybe we should just wait for the mullahs to self-destruct. That’s the thrust of this Forbes article on Iran . Oil provides more than 70...

Stay with it to the end...

In the “For What It’s Worth” Dept… London ’s Daily Mail has an analysis of how green (or not) the Live Earth concerts are. I learned s...

You may have heard the U.S. military had a large re-enlistment ceremony, followed by an equally large naturalization ceremony, at Camp Vi...

We’re not all of us language-people. But…for those who just might be such a person, I offer “ The Stylistic Artistry of the Declaration of...