I'm not a big fan of the holidays, but there's a Christmas post by Dr. Spudman which I highly recommend. It's called Blackie's Wino Christmas. Some of you who were here last year at this time may remember it, and it's worth a second read, but for all my newer friends here… Read full post »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate rejected a plan Tuesday to allow Americans to import low-cost prescriptions from abroad, handing drug makers a victory that may help secure passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

The vote on the amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., was 51-48 in favo… Read full post »

From the AP:

Only 57 percent of Americans think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, down 20 points in just three years, a new poll says. 

In a poll of 1,500 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, released on Oct.… Read full post »

The pavement stops just outside of Alma. As I drive onto the gravel, I feel ten years younger.

Seven or eight miles west of where the blacktop ends is a place called Peachy Miller Lane.  It's one of those roads  which get so little traffic that grass grows… Read full post »

                UPDATED: NOW WITH MORE MISTRESSES 

In what seems to be a refutation of the notion that money can't buy you love, Tiger Woods has  parlayed his millions and millions of dollars into&nb… Read full post »

There was a snake in the garden today. He was basking on some rocks in the sun when I happened by and disturbed him.

He was gorgeous, red and gold and black and green. I played hide and seek with him for a while, in and… Read full post »