Today I happened through Highlands, a resort town with a spice shop I like to visit occasionally. It's long been a playground of the wea...

Dad29 sends a memorial to a lady with a voice. She was old all my life; 76 when I was born, 87 when I first met her. When she spoke, it soun...

In the spirit of trying out new things, I thought some music to chill on a beach with would be good.

In the opinion, United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Judge Stephen P. McGlynn ruled that PICA’s ban on commonl...

I understand the frustration of the writer, but I don't think their opponents are all liars -- not strictly. Only one criminal out of si...

Just seeing how to embed Rumble videos here, so some silliness follows. I was never really a Fox News viewer, and don't have mu...

He pulled out the two-half-hitches, so I retied it with a triple one. That should hold him. 

 As a child of the '80s, one of the artists responsible for making me a life-long metalhead was  Yngwie Malmsteen , a Swedish guitarist ...

Probably for a very brief time, Amazon has the book  Unleash the Dogs of War: Secret Missions in Support of Operation Crusader free on Kind...

Since we’ve had so much musical diversity lately, here’s one my wife likes. 

Over the weekend, the U.S. military bravely evacuated our diplomats from the U.S. embassy in Khartoum. As a former diplomat, I feel an inc...

As Hayward points out, it's not just one party that gives in to the totalitarian urge.

The world isn’t all bad. Not while there’s beer and bagpipes. 

...Since it only “knows” the majority beliefs (or rather, the textual expressions of these beliefs) which exist on the Web, if ChatGPT take...

It's a joke, kind of. It's also exactly what's really going to happen if things keep going the way that they are. UPDATE: "...

Today was my father’s birthday. He died in 2016, receiving a heroic funeral from the Volunteer Fire Department he had so long served.  Today...

After Tom noticed a missing comment of his in an earlier post, I'm reviewing the comments on the back end of the blog. I notice that a l...

 Apparently the Aurora Borealis was very active last night- seen as far south as Arizona, Central California, Illinois, Virginia... I wonder...

“What is best in life? Licking the carbon steel you cooked those tri-tips on is pretty good, although the steak bits were better.”

Here's Knopfler in concert in Italy, 2013. Mostly new (in 2013), some going back to Dire Straits days.