When I took these pics I knew at some point I would use them to honor the death of one of our people. I was pensive when I took them. I did ...

How to Catch a Foul Ball Grim must be rubbing off on me. If I'd seen video a few years ago of the guy who recently ducked and let a fou...

Night at the Museum?  (Roman men, Hellenistic ladies, and little blue dudes from Egypt -- could be fun!) And how about taking this baby...

Conflict I love Assistant Village Idiot's site . Possibly the explanation for my pleasure lies in the subject of a couple of his recent...

" Millin, Black Bear ." LONDON — Bill Millin, a Scottish bagpiper who played highland tunes as his fellow commandos landed on a No...

Wasps and T99 Both Hate Fakers: From New Scientist , an article about female paper wasps. We don't usually think of wasps as being all ...

Songs for a Friday: Cassandra is running a horrible song contest . Most anything a 20-year-old would know well enough to sing probably qual...

A Parliament of Rooks, A Murder of Crows, and Seven Drunken Nights: One of the more interesting terms to emerge from Mrs. Palin's writin...

Luxuries: An interesting chart from young Mr. Klein . He isn't that impressed, but mostly it looks to me like the American people are j...

The Informal Fallacies: Here is an article called On the Fallacy of Proclaiming Fallacies . H/t to the Normblog. I don't read the Norm...

Externalities: A mother explains some things to a Senator.

Lies and Courtesy: I have told the story of getting paid in China . Apparently, it's much the same in Turkey . As the First General Law...

Truck Envy This isn't a picture of one of our fire brush trucks. Ours is even older and funkier than this 1967 model -- and much less ...

The Role of Defenders: We have talked occasionally (scroll to "Threats and the Tea Party") about the difference in threat percept...

Cost Effective? Before the Grand New Health Care Law of 2010, we were told by the plan's supporters that Republicans had a two part plan...

Snakebit It's been a while since we had a snakebite among our dogs, but we have a 9-month-old here at Chez T99 who came back in from his...

Sometimes the Bible Has Certain Ambiguities: A group called the National Association of Evangelicals has put together what they call a bibli...

YIKES You've got to be patient for the first 60 seconds of this; the young women look bored and distracted going through a pointless lit...

More Cute Animal Stuff I can't help myself. A friend sent this link to pictures of the tiniest bird babies hatching and fledging over ...

The Other White Meat I don't which is funnier, the "Eek, that unfamiliar meat is icky" response or the "Awww, I don't...