Last night Lindstrom was on the national news. Watch it here.

Sometimes James Lileks gets it exactly right: Next Generation has many “classic” moments, but so much drearily earnest tripe — and in retrospect the Federation looks so weak and touchy-feely it’s a wonder the Romulans didn’t just knock them over for target practice. Bad romance: Worf and Troi? The big mean feral warrior and the [...]

My wife just got back from buying me my birthday presents. And now she’s making me wait in here and I can’t come out until she’s done wrapping them. What I really need is a little periscope.

As Danny Yee points out, with all of these military base re-alignments, the South is bound to win the next civil war. Guess I’m gonna have to start gettin’ used to grits.

I’m slowly working on digitizing and/or editing our wedding/wedding related pics. Whenever I finish a set of them, I’ll make note of it here. I just finished with set 1 of pics by Charlie Gregory, in which Peggy and I get birdseed and bubbles thrown and blown at us, and in which Peggy wastes no [...]

“I recommend the Envirocrusher-4. It weighs 40 tons and it uses owls for fuel.”

Because it’s all about me, after all, I thought I should remind you that my birthday is on Wednesday.

Yesterday Keir and I went out stealing plants from the woods behind Keir’s grandma’s house. Going plant stealing with a botanist is always fun because you get to learn all sorts of new things about plants. I got a lot of practice at identifying poison ivy because Keir seemed to be really good at leading [...]

A regular reader of Captain Ed’s blog sends the Captain some words of wisdom from Senator Pat Leahy: I mention this because Governor Bush and I, while we disagree on some issues, have one very significant issue on which we agree. He gave a speech awhile back and criticized what has happened in the Senate [...]

Jarvis tackles taxes as social policy: This is taxation as punishment for something somebody doesn’t approve of: Tax the smokers, the drinkers, the gas-guzzlers, the rich, the burger-snarfers. What’s next? Taxing violent games? Sexy movies? Condoms? If we’re really going to improve the quality of life via fiscal policy, I say let’s tax checkered flannel [...]