On the same day that the United States is trying to deport an 89-year-old Nazi prison guard for engaging in torture and following orders he...

This is something that you have to be careful about, now that many electronics are being sold with an electronic umbilical cord still attac...

I never thought of this... but it is funny and might just work as a way to keep burglars from considering my house as a target in the future...

In case you didn't know it, "teabagging" not only refers to what some people around the country will be doing tomorrow to prot...

I couldn't find an example of myself writing it, but know that I thought it several times, so I'll just quote Andrew Sullivan expre...

I've been thinking about it, especially now that I'm married, especially after seeing what has happened to Thomas Hunt . One commen...

A man named Thomas Hunt is dying . The unfortunate part is that he is an American, dying in The Philippines, with no money. In The Philippin...

The U.S. government is debating the prospect of bringing that lone surviving Somali pirate to American soil to be tried in a federal court,...

View From The Left : Racist Texas lawmaker thinks Asians should change their names to ones that Americans can understand. On Tuesday, State ...

Holy week is over... but summertime sure isn't. As they say: It's not the heat, it's the humidity. They were thinking of the jun...

Right Wing Fantasy : President O flies a pizza chef from St. Louis, Missouri, to the White House in order to have him cook a pizza just for ...

A perfect primer to rational thought, scientific method, and the false arguments presented by people who want you to think like they do.

(I was going to add this as an update to the post below, but it got too long.) The protesters accomplished what they set out to do in Pattay...

I lived in Pattaya for 5 years, and it was never anything more than a concrete morass of hookers, drunks, thieves, queers, and violent gangs...

President Obama originally promised to revivify the Freedom of Information Act, and release secret memos crafted by legal counsel for The Bu...

It's Holy Week here in The Philippines, so everyone is dusting off their whips and 400-pound crosses for a great week of misery, pain, s...

My bike was finished. I told Mechanic Jun to drive it the 15 miles to my house in Jasaan to see if any kinks needed to be worked out. Yes, t...

Don't ask me why, but one thing that I really find cute on a girl is what I've always called a "crooked smile"... especial...

I think I'm going to add a new pet peeve to my blog quiddity: Now joining the fight against hypocrisy will be the fight to get people to...

Definition Adjective meaning to be blindly or naively optimistic. Example Yesterday, in a congressional district of New York State that has ...

Candidate Obama said he wouldn't raise taxes on anybody earning under $250,000 per year... but today President Obama signed a 62-cent-pe...

America's best political statistician, Nate Silver, crunches the numbers for the 2010 elections, and makes the following determination:...

I'm not in a mood to type this morning, but a lot of pictures have accumulated over the last week, none of them taken by me — Epril and ...

This time though, it's okay to chuckle . The Committee has become alarmed at the deterioration of family values and family unity. One of...

Our new Doberman puppy arrived today. His name is Tyson... so named because it is hoped that he will grow up to be big, black, and menacing....

The New People's Army here in Mindanao (celebrating 40 years of getting themselves pointlessly killed) today attacked an army outpost a...

"Chicken Little" is a children's story about a chicken who had a pebble fall on his back, and was convinced the sky was fallin...

The latest internet phenomonon (limited, I suppose, to conservative political junkies) is one Bob Basso, whom I haven't bothered to read...

I took 8-year-old little sister Dimple today to the mall in Cagayan De Oro to buy her a new outfit. Dimple was highly excited and was awake...

Electric vehicles are just getting better, cooler, more sensible and economical, and hard to pass up. With your new $50,000 Tesla Model S Se...

Here are the stories that have been making headlines in The Philippines this month: Convicted rapist Daniel Smith had his accuser recant, bu...

I readjusted my understanding of the sense of community in The Philippines that I've been commenting on here lately. I think that a Fil...

I love custom cars, hot rods, monster trucks. I've never seen an automotive fashion trend that I didn't find attractive. Until now. ...

Life is ongoing here in the jungle. We still climb out of bed in the morning to the cock crowing, and we still climb into bed at night to th...

I think one of the nicest things about living out here in the jungle is that, without the latest headlining band playing at the colosseum, w...

I just finished my book on Filipino history . Unfortunately it was written in 1974, so the book ends with coverage of the fantastically succ...