Barking Rabbits

From Yahoo News : Say goodbye to the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch and hello to the Anthropocene. Among the major changes heralding this t...

The years in America after the Civil War and prior to World War I saw a huge change in this country, for the good and the bad. The Gilded A...

David Brooks is one of those beltway writers that is very pro-Republican and anti-Democrat. They are easy to spot. Brooks is a bit differe...

I just returned from a business trip. My flight was very bumpy and not very enjoyable. "Thrown about the sky" comes to mind. Bu...

I might have something terribly interesting to say by then. Or not.

More knowledge about the solar system is being added in big chunks as the first spacecraft in some 30 years takes pictures of the planet Mer...

This idea was suggested to me a number of years ago on another web site I used to frequent quite often, of which all the contributors to thi...

I added the Sitemeter thing to this site a few weeks ago, just to see how much traffic I was actually getting. After blogger changed to thi...

O.K., all that noise from the Bush administration about how, if the telecoms were not given retroactive immunity for all the illegal spying ...

None of these items really are developed to the point that I could make a complete post out of any of them. So, I’ll just stuff them in a s...

The NCAA “National Championship” game was held this week in New Orleans, which, if I am not mistaken, just hosted the Sugar Bowl a little ov...

The airport's runway is 2781 meters long, of which 1000 meters of the runway is supported by 180 pillars, each pillar 50 meters height...

UPDATED BELOW: I don’t know how many times I have seen a statement similar to this one in print in the last couple of weeks. Mike Huckabee ...

Ed Rollins has been in politics for quite some time and best known for running Ronald Regan’s re-election campaign in 1983. He is now runni...

Tweety (that's Chris Matthews to everyone not in the know, due to his shocking yet thin yellow hair and his big square head) on MSNBC wa...

1. We actually have people running for president of the United States who believe that the Constitution is subordinate to their belief in Go...

On New Year’s Day, during all the bowl games, I saw two interviews with incoming new head coaches (Rich Rodriguez with Michigan and Rick Neu...

Everyone seems to make lists at the end of the year. I am not sure why this is. Maybe it just puts some sort of order onto chaos. Maybe i...

My title isn’t really 100% truthful, as Chimpy will still be in place for a few weeks in January of 2009. However, we will know who will be...

My computer picked up a spyware monster and totally hosed it up. Not being one who gets along with computers, I had to take it into the sho...

Man, this could be a very interesting show. From the LA Times, via the Everett Herald . An asteroid similar to the one that flattened fores...

Here is an absolutely horrifying story (via Digby at Hullabaloo ), about a 24-year-old woman from Iceland who was subjected to some truly ou...

UPDATED BELOW: Here’s a question (maybe not a particularly interesting question on the face of it, but a question nevertheless) that you pro...

Jerry B. Jenkins, co-author of the Left Behind series of books, is also an owner of the Phoenix Mustangs, which, I take it, is a minor leagu...

I don’t “get” Christmas. Oh, I “understand” Christmas on about three different levels. There is the obvious Christian tradition of celebra...

You never quite know what you are going to find. There is some very good, very snarky stuff out there. This is from a blog named Kung Fu M...

I have high speed internet at my work station, and I am not able to load many of the blogs that I used to like. Huffington Post now partial...

Oh, yeah. Complete and utter toady, willing to say anything and stonewall, even in the face of looking completely ridiculous. However, the...

From the Discovery channel web site . This was a bug you couldn't swat and definitely couldn't step on. British scientists have stum...

I don’t suppose anyone has noticed that this blog has been full of really trivial stuff lately. Rather interesting at times, but really tri...