It is 108 º F (42 º C) in Portland today—with a humidity level of about 25%. Phoenix, Arizona and Death Valley Junction, California, are ...

Contemporary art, no matter how much it has defined itself by a taste for negation, can still be analyzed as a set of assertions of a forma...

Kinda drunk in a relatively terrible local brew pub in the city of Newport (yea every city in the entire state has port jammed into it some...

          I was highly entertained by Peter Alliss's comments over the last two days of golf-watching. (I know, I know; but it'...

          If I were to impart one thing about detecting — from my years as a criminal investigator — it is this:   there's always one...

Heard this terrible-funny Bloodhound Gang song for the first time at Karaoke. I'd already had four and a half shots of Jaegermeister, a...

The Griffin Family lives in Rhode Island. South Park is a city in Colorado. The Simpsons reside in the ubiquitous city of Springfield, in an...

I intend to do everything ... to have one way of evaluating experience: does it cause me pleasure or pain — and I shall be very cautious ab...

My latest telephone call with ma mère resulted in a notable exchange. It began by me trying to clarify my half-sister Kim's most recent...

An exceptionally well told character-based story about a small unit of Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) soldiers in Iraq. The characters ...

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship; in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only...

          Almost twenty years ago, the leader of Texas—who referred to himself as Chief President-General of the Lone Star Nation—ordered hi...

Today, I Took Powell Pow took me on his first hike. Because this was his first "training hike" my plan was to carry him in his p...

The earth’s atmosphere is a (relatively) closed system, which has trapped water on the planet since the earth formed about 4.5 billion year...

Today we hiked in Forest Park along the Leif Erickson Trail, which is an eleven mile, one-lane, dirt & gravel road (off-limits to motori...

Today is the June Solstice (1st Day of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere and 1st Day of Winter in the Southern Hemisphere) and the longest/s...

If degenerate artists see fields blue, they are deranged, and should go to an asylum; if they only pretend to see them blue, they are crimi...

Powell, 4 months I am providing this to avoid being cited by feline-failure-to-post-a-feckin-foto enforcement officials. More importantly (a...

Decided it was time (the 14 months without a cat was fine, but it was time), so I looked for a month or so and finally found and brought hom...

UP - Pixar continues to generate greatness. It will make you cry and laugh; for adults who like an intelligent story behind their animatio...

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned. — Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf

When was the last time you thought for yourself? It is a simple question. Immediately, one wants to—jumps to, knee-jerks to—say:   I always ...

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know be...

     In his latest post at ex movere , Driz included his interpretation of the quote:  The disappointed man speaks: ‘I listened for an ec...

digital rendering by veach st glines — 2009 The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will ...

      trees cat die   family trees cat die unless their cut down — Graffiti, on street-side of an electric box, in black marker Thirteen yea...

digital rendering by veach st glines — 2009 Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art....

With a snide but oh so smarmy wink and nod to Davecat at Shouting to Hear the Echoes I present my first single-cell comic: The only things...

The Eta Aquarids are predicted to reach a peak of about a meteor-a-minute. The peak will be the night of Tuesday, 5 May. Best being the m...