A lot of American skyscrapers don’t have a 13th floor, in the sense of a floor with that designation, because the number was thought to be b...

Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett Dolly Parton giving an impromptu performance in Paídi Ó Sé's Pub (I've started this video just a bit ...

All day exercises from before dawn until well into the dark today. Tomorrow we resume early again, but will end a little earlier. Perhaps I’...

This one is a waiter who brings your dinner from the kitchen to your table. It is very polite about not bumping into people; they seemed to ...

For some reason my 10-year-old niece in Idaho had strong opinions about the superiority of 7-Elevens in Taiwan. I went by one to get picture...

Good academic research . 

I didn’t make it Friday. It was quite a journey.  I did get to spend many, many hours in the San Francisco airport. On the international ter...

 

Not sure this Boeing does. Frisco by late morning, then a 15 hour delay (so far).

US to revive prize courts .  Once you have prize courts in place, there’s no reason not to revive letters of marque and reprisal. 

Someday I need to stop coming back to this town. 

I’m starting for the other side of the world this morning. Taipei by Friday — local time. 

A very young Dolly singing in Fountain City, Tennessee. Dolly Parton will be missed here in Appalachia. I don't doubt that such a forw...

In American history, the Comancheros were a group of Europeans who traded with Comancheria , the Comanche Empire , during its period of domi...

Give praise to the day at evening, | to a woman on her pyre, To a weapon which is tried, | to a maid at wed lock, To ice when it is crossed,...

My great-grandmother and her folk were Primitive Baptists, for whom foot-washing was a crucial annual ritual (as it is for the Pope). My mot...

One of my county commissioners is apparently on a mission from God .  Next time I run into that guy I'm going to ask him just what he me...

...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...