Barking Rabbits

From the Seattle Times. Four officers were shot and killed at 8:15 a.m. as they worked on their laptops at Forza Coffee Company in Parkland....

I wish I had written this. From Vagabond Scholar.

1) The U.S. government is essentially and forever broken. It's broken-ness is forever and will never return to a government "for ...

Thanks for checking in, though. I do know that I don’t really like what this blog has become, which is very much a one-trick pony complaini...

It's just too damn depressing. When the Bushies were in charge, blogging about the outrage of the day was easy (as, I suspect, it was f...

Picture from Attaturk , who stole it from somewhere else.

Oh, yeah. I write stuff down for very few people to read. Maybe this weekend. It's been a full week. Meanwhile, here is an older phot...

I like to post interesting or amazing photographs. I get many of them via e-mail (such as the post below with photographs of Hoover Dam or ...

I like to post interesting or amazing photographs. I get many of them via e-mail (such as the post below with photographs of Hoover Dam or ...

I guess only the rather liberal Pacific Northwest feels free to call something what it actually is; domestic terrorism. Because, you know, ...

I expect to see jack-booted healthcare Nazis showing up at everyone's front door to drag away anyone over 60 at any time now. Really soo...

I believe that, under normal circumstances (which does not include updating a computer), I am a very rational person. I act upon my decisio...

I suppose we should all just feel relieved that “Reverend” Ken Hutcherson is only a hate filled idiot and isn’t actually a mass murderer lik...

I'm not sure it totally works, but then, it's only for about a month.

Boeing has just made the decision to set up a second 787 production line in South Carolina. Actually, “just” is not an appropriate use of t...

Doctor, just what is in those bottles, anyway? Photo from "The Thing from Another World."

Creeping closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two side of a $160 million bridge at the Hoover Dam slowly takes...

Yaknow, I'm really going to miss Halloween when it's over. I am getting to use all these cool photos that otherwise would make abso...

Every once in a while, a print newspaper actually does some fine investigative reporting. The Seattle Times is running a series on Washingt...

Apparently, some Mayan prophecy predicts the world will end in 2012. There’s a major motion picture about it. There are a lot of homebrew...

One definition of insanity that I have always heard, which I believe is attributed to Albert Einstein, is to keep repeating the same action ...

I think you need to changes filters on your camera.... And you might want to rethink that gift of the Mad Scientist EZ Gene Splicer kit for...

From Thinkprogress . Look at this Republican fundraiser mailing. Seems to look… kind of official, doesn’t it? Sort of like….or exactly l...

This is from an e-mail I received from an engineering and musician acquaintance. I am not sure of the original source of the material. The ...

Is that a statue of Anubis in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

There’s almost no point in making snide comments about the insanity that makes up a great portion of this country. The insane part refuse t...

This is the "blow dry" stage, which she isn't overly enthralled with. This has the makings of a great Halloween costume with ...

From Americablog : The 75-minute forum filled several sections of Furman University's Timmons Arena and attracted demonstrators, critics...

John Carpenter has directed and produced some very noteworthy horror films. His films The Thing, The Fog, Halloween and Escape from NewYork...

Notice the orange title of the blog? Very inspiring, I thought. Ah, this season is something special indeed. There is a crisp feeling to ...

Wow. As many people are saying this morning (even the White House, apparently), "My, that was unexpected." I tend to agree. I a...

I have written before about the scientific method , but I’ll give a quick little summary here, for all you humanities majors out there. You...