Stonekettle Station

Over on the Small Wars Journal, in the comment thread under Malcolm Nance’s post, and in several dozen vitriolic emails I received this morn...

I feel like crap this morning. I think I caught a bug from Shawn Powers' site a couple of days ago. Damn you, Shawn, or should that be ...

I was helping my son with his science homework this evening. Using the internet, he was supposed to look up an active volcano and write down...

Having considered Janiece's suggestion in yesterday's comment thread and found it good, and as an acknowledgment of the fact that I...

You've got to love the logic behind this. Two prominent supporters of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign in South Ca...

As you know, I haven't quite decided what to do with myself now that I've retired from the Navy. With my personality type and weird...

This is one of most bizarre web things I've ever seen. Bizarre, disturbing, and strangely addictive. You can click and drag George if he...

Update: Attention those of you surfing in from various places, especially those you from the AOL Parenting Forum: The following is intended ...

Because, everybody, they're doing it. As you can tell, I'm writing today. This is how I write, by doing everything else. My den is...

Just so you don't think that every post on Stonekettle Station is GWB bashing, here's my latest work. This is 2007#22, it is turned ...

I happened to stumble across the Lawyers, Guns, and Money blog. I like these guys, and not just because they named their blog after my fav...

You know you're getting older when you misplace expensive software. I still can't find the double dammed Corel Paintshop CD. I have...

And the rats continue to climb down the mooring lines and scamper away from the foundering SS Bush. Karen Hughes, one the last of the presid...

The incredible Tracy Chapman. This song moves me. I defy anyone to watch this video, listen to these lyrics and Chapman's fantastic vo...

Well, there's justice for you. Sometimes the system does actually work. (Reuters) - A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas churc...

Halloween. I was trying to think of a scary entry for today, but, you know, I just can't think of anything more frightening than the fa...

I won't belabor this whole upgrade process much longer, but there are a couple of things I want to say about it. First, the bad part: - ...

First post from the new machine, woohoo! As you can tell, I've got the new machine up and running in basic configuration under Windows V...

I've got to run into Anchorage today. Yes, yes. I'm going in to buy a new server (mumble, mumble, curse, mumble), the old one was f...

Via John Scalzi's Whatever , I took this online test to see if I tended toward Asperger's Syndrome: Your Aspie score: 62 of 200 You...

[ Actual Transcript of Recent FEMA News Conference ] [ Deputy Administrator Johnson steps up to a cardboard podium mockup . ' FEMA ...

Between 2001 and 2004, I was stationed onboard the Aegis Guided Missile Cruiser, USS Valley Forge homeported in San Diego, and so we found o...

I'm an unabashed Larry Niven fan. Ringworld is still one of my very favorite novels in any genre - and I actually own a first edition co...

As promised. This is the bowl I was working on last weekend. I did this one for my wife, who will give it away as part of a charity fund ra...

As most of you know, it is my post retirement goal to become Ultimate Emperor of the Universe. For those of you joining us late in the prog...