...you're supposed to bring your own rocks. Arlo and their pickles is, you likely know if you hang around here, a reference to this old ...

I noticed today this small note about a range war written up here in 2024. Charles and Heather Maude, a small, fifth-generation farming an...

A clipping from last weekend’s chile pepper contest.  Sic transit gloria Mundi.

The Economist poses a novel dataset as a partial answer to the question (archive version because of paywall; original is here for subscrib...

A judge rules the 'ghost gun' ban by the Biden administration to be unconstitutional . Most importantly, this governs the constructi...

Long-time Milblogger CDR Salamander points out that this is really an indictment of the schools she attended rather than of her, herself. ...

Last week we were talking about the divergence between polling results and the electoral outcomes in the Hong race. Partly, it turns out, it...

One would not get the impression from the news that we were living through a historic era of peace, nonviolence, and safety. Apparently we a...

Russians have apparently decided  that it's not safe to keep accounts on deposit in the wake of the Kremlin's financial woes. (WPost...

A clever explanation of the odd shape used by the ancients. 

I guess it's hard to get published without claiming that there's some unknown to be solved, or a mystery to be explored, or novel in...

At least initially.   I won.

When I was a boy, we had a creek behind our house that had some stone cascades in it. I used to walk down with my dog and watch the water sh...

D29 links a story ultimately from ProPublica about a failed Texas ammunition factory. The problem is that it was built with Turkish robots,...

Forbes explores the sudden collapse of Socialist darling Hong. Socialist Francesca Hong was heavily favored to win the Wisconsin Democratic...

Just a small garden this year, but it's happy. These are San Marzano tomatoes , similar to but better than the more locally famous Roma ...

For the first time since 1934, suppressors (usually called 'silencers' in the same way that rifles are increasingly called 'assa...

The Washington Post has what might once have been a blockbuster report . It accuses the President of actually carrying out the plot of a Tom...

It'll be two years in September, and three out of four small businesses that survived at all have not recovered to 80% of prior revenue...

If you are interested in the Russian shadow fleet transiting the Arctic Circle*, the best source for now seems to be the one I started with,...