I’ll be in the river all weekend in training as a  Swift Water  technician. You’re on your own for a couple of days.

I did not include this in the text of the letter because I doubt the sincerity of the politicians raising this issue, and therefore its real...

An open letter you are all free to deploy if you like. Dear Senator: School shootings are a problem, but they are a problem that is easily r...

Just a collection of news here. Buzzfeed ( BF ): Secret DOJ report clears itself of political wrongdoing in Gen. Flynn unmasking AP : Clinto...

An essay  by Richard Fernandez. UPDATE: Somehow I accidentally linked that originally to a YouTube performance of the Conan the Barbarian s...

The chaplain said in his prayer that we are a broken nation, and begged God to forgive and restore us. Another year that might have seemed u...

Unfortunately, when you fail for no good reason, you're likely to latch onto a dumb explanation for failure and therefore advocate fixin...

The short version: The long version:

"'Guns should not be in the hands of the mentally unstable' says senile old man with nukes ."

 That bear was headed for the hills. 

Parents with guns would have solved this a lot faster, and would have saved some of their children doing so. Possibly some of them might hav...

A large underwater laboratory has abruptly disappeared from the sea floor.

I still don't think this will make much difference at all -- and at first glance I read this as him preparing to slap the nervous bird r...

The West Hunter blog guy (G. Cochran?) has gotten a little strange over the years. Still, he posts interesting things every couple of month...

 The subject of courage is one modern society hardly talks about- at least in traditional terms- and waters down to utter meaninglessness wh...

Go away.  We’ve had one call after another up here. Trees are falling left and right. Roofs punched through by trees.  Flash floods, warning...

A new translation of the Poetics aims to show contemporary writers that Aristotle still has a lot to offer their craft.

It's a cool name , anyway. " Scientists have uncovered the remains of one of the largest pterosaurs on record, researchers announce...

There's nothing new here, so there's nothing new to say. The shooter was, again, a crazy person known to police . This is true appro...