TL’s famous steak — The Wife’s favorite dish — is prepared by marinating it for several hours in a mix of teryiaki sauce, dry red wine, chopped green onions, garlic, and black pepper, and grilled over fire while cold to… Continue Reading
No, read the headline again. My point is, Dick Cheney is not having a real good year. To begin with, he’s the Vice-President. No politican worth his salt wants to be Vice-President. You wind up being thought of as an… Continue Reading
As one might expect, a group like the Rationalists of East Tennessee attracts a number of Ayn Rand adherents. Sunday, The Wife and I got to deal with quite a few of these sorts in an otherwise-fascinating discussion of how… Continue Reading
We saw this on the hood of the junker Wednesday night. I thought the pattern of snowfall and snowmelt on the hood was interesting. I’m not entirely sure what was going on under the hood – we hadn’t run the… Continue Reading
Terrorists have been taking hostages for as long as they have been able. The current hostage crisis — a bunch of shitheads have taken a journalist hostage and are demanding the release of a variety of prisoners in exchange for… Continue Reading
My favorite game is Civilization. It has recently been released in its fourth update. I find the game endlessly fascinating for its simulation of the progression of human advancement, its string of guns-and-butter choices, and its strategic view of war.… Continue Reading
Jordan is the most recent addition to our family. She is a pest. She hogs the food. She bullies Ginger. She chirps, trills, and meows constantly, and does not stop begging for attention except when she sleeps. She sometimes does… Continue Reading
For the past three days now, I’ve been interrupting my day by taking the dogs for walks up and down our neighborhood. The housing development has three streets, and Google Earth tells me that if we go up and down… Continue Reading
In a move sure to anger the White House, Congresswoman Heather Wilson (who chairs the subcomittee in charge of funding the NSA) has called for full Congressional hearings on the domestic wiretap program. It’s heartening to know that not everyone… Continue Reading
The most recent media Outrage Of The Week concerns a Danish newspaper which ran cartoons portraying Mohammed as a terrorist. Sharia (Islamic law) forbids portraying Mohammed at all, but I’m willing to bet that a flattering portrait gets a lot… Continue Reading