Borepatch

Teddy Roosevelt's diary, February 14, 1884: His wife, Alice, died two days after giving birth to their daughter.  May you have a much...

Visiting a foreign land is like looking in the mirror for the first time.  The absence of the familiar, and the presence of the unusual caus...

Having suffered through the inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s, this is ugly.  Gasoline - even faced with weak demand - is headed to $4....

You won't see any better than this.

Shown here at night.   Greece no longer has anyone to subsidize them, and so Athens is burning.  As Captain Capitalism likes to say, enj...

#1 Son wanted me to pick up a sixpack, to have a beer with me.  Cool , I thought.  Pick it out , I said. He'd seen the Superbowl comme...

Destructive device?

Looks like from the 1970s.

Image via Wikipedia Emmanuel Chabrier was a late 19th Century French composer who is, quite frankly, pretty obscure.  Admired in his day,...

The Czar of Muscovy brings some good points about the election (although I'd like him to show his work a bit more; then again, I'm ...

This is epic : Russia's main gas-company, Gazprom, was unable to meet demand last weekend as blizzards swept across Europe, and over t...

There seems to be a wave of spam going around.  "Joann J.Prado" (who seems to be, like her friends, curiously short of white space...

( Image source ) Some time back, Brock Townsend posted this .  I find that I quite like the neo-traditional sound of the Pistol Annies.  ...

Just because it's awesome .

One mustn't allow the colonials to forget their place, mustn't one?

I mean, just look at the suffering! Oops, sorry - that was Progressive Approved™ "environmentally friendly" power generation. ...

I have crazy ninja PowerPoint skillz.  Just sayin'.

( Image source ) Seems that a Member of Parliament - the Labour Party's Equalities Spokesperson, no less - objected to the presence o...

So all y'all just chill out ... Comedy Central's new show Key & Peele is pretty funny.  I did NOT say that ...

It seems that it was recorded .  It was lost, but it seems that it's been found again: Tucked away for decades in a cabinet in Thomas ...