Borepatch

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge...

NASA has discovered the first Earth-like world in the "habitable zone" - not too close to its star; not too far away (this allows...

There's a lot of good stuff over at The Smallest Minority .

Well, I’m on the phone with my computer security service, and as I understand it someone compromised my IP address and is using it to down...

It's funny because it's true. The TV was on and the (ex?) Royal couple came on.  The Queen Of The World coined the nickname in the...

The House Of Mirrors is a staple of county fairs across the land.  It's a maze with mirrors for walls - the fun is in the confusion ca...

The whole language argument boiled down into a nice, tasty (heh) serving: The post has a great summary of how Heller vs. DC entirely b...

Lawrence finds an interesting article : Reciprocity  is the key to President Donald Trump: Reciprocity has been the key to understanding ...

I've been posting about the rotten state of the climate databases for a long time.  Actually, the data as recorded are fine - the data a...

Oh, wait: Okay, never mind.  After all, the Press doesn't mind - when it's a hospital bombed by Democrats ...

pic.twitter.com/oyGBbhkLWa — Sal the Agorist (@SallyMayweather) January 3, 2020

The Queen Of The World points out that today is the great man's birthday, born on this date in 1892.  I've said before (and unsurpri...

It's January, so Congress is coming back into session.  This is fixin' to be interesting. Image shamelessly stolen from Gorges ...

Tam linked to ASM826's post about whether the new decade has begun or not, but included this tasty tidbit: Is your brain just  maki...

Tom Nichols is back in the news, talking about how gun owners : The “experts” do not have expertise based on an analysis of the empirical...

It's January 1, and so it was time for the Frosty Balls ride with the local HOG group. It got up to 40°, so it wasn't bad.  A...

We are come hard up on the end of the year.  Modern New Years' Eve celebrations include the singing of Robert Burns' Auld Lang Syne,...

I posted this ten years ago, and it's still funny.  You can get them here . Tonight we're going to party like it's  1999  191...

A Republic, if you can keep it.  - Benjamin Franklin, on the adoption of the Constitution The swamp won't get drained : Let me be...

Will wonders never cease?  Today's delightful New Years' composition comes from a modern classical composer whose music doesn'...