Exile in Portales

Our weather just went all to hell overnight, as far as the temperature and our normally brilliant blue skies go.  It's pretty chilly out...

Three items from the Usual USAF Source that should concern every American... the first is from this past Tuesday: Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Cal...

From a couple o' years ago: Secret Messages in the USSR national anthem... Heh. (h/t to Blog-Bud Loosy-anna Andy )

A couple o' toons from the Usual Source ... In regards to Mr. Kelley's cartoon... I have mixed emotions about means testing.  I...

I considered an alternate title for this post, i.e., "Wherein Our Shirt Matches Our Beer."  Because... That would be a New Belgi...

You saw this today if you read the Shoebox blog ... or you saw it sometime this past month if you're one of the three and a half million...

This: Heh.

This is actually kinda scary... everything seems to be going according to plan where the move is concerned.  Well, sorta.  I've yet to h...

The medical term for the condition that afflicts hordes of women and men on our teevees... If Women's Medication Ads Gained Self-Aware...

From the Usual Source . Update, 1020 hrs :  Lex, strangely enough, uses the exact same one-word title on his 9/11 post ... wherein he re-t...

We're still in the process of labeling posts albeit in a MUCH less anal-retentive fashion, which is to say we're doin' a few at ...

I'm pretty sure I've never had a Shiner Oktoberfest and I'm semi-amazed at the oversight, mainly coz we loves us some beer from ...

... a move-in date.  I was by the future Casa de Pennington earlier this afternoon and wandered about inside for a while before setting off...

Lifted from the Shoebox blog .   I plan to leave my teevee off this entire weekend, except for Saturday's football games.  That's ...

From the Usual Source .

A one-hit wonder and the BEST of that particular genre, at that: Oh, you don't know me, but you make me so happy I tried to call you b...

We're right in the middle o' Happy Hour and took a break to come inside and put up yet another post, this time to celebrate the thir...

From the USAF Usual Source : First Over the Top: An aircrew with the 69th Bomb Squadron at Minot AFB, N.D., became the first to fly a B-52H...

Here's what we look like at the moment... I'm thinkin' I might have to break out the flannel for this afternoon's Happy Ho...

Damn.  I LOVE this woman.