Stonekettle Station

Long ago armies were personal things, the private tools of the rich and powerful. During the Dark Ages in Europe, dukes, barons, earls, an...

You know what chaps my ass? Well, yeah, a lot of things actually. But today it's certain Conservative members of Congress who seem t...

Went to Anchorage, just got back. Somewhere in the four hours I was gone, a "rating" gadget appeared on the bottom of my blog post...

Congress sent President Bush a bill Thursday forbidding employers and insurance companies from using genetic tests showing people are at ri...

A search engine where you can hum a few bars into your computer's microphone and it'll figure out the name of that dammed instrument...

Laura Bush on TV condemning Myanmar's military dictatorship for not allowing US hurricane relief: " We know already that they are ...

Thanks, John I don't know what sucked my score down by 2%, unless it was whole part where you have to solve for the Special Theory of Ei...

Saw this, couldn't stop laughing.   Busy this morning, replacing the valve cover gaskets on my wife's Mustang and finishing s...

OK, look if you're a spokesman or a news reporter for something, then just say it please. No embellishment, no extra words - just feaki...

Food Fight , "an abridged history of American-centric war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in...

I just walked from the shop. I left the TV on. I really need to stop doing that. Glenn Beck interviewing Ben Stein on CNN. It was like star...

The Oval Office : GWB : Gosh darn it! (Shakes the newspaper, sticks out bottom lip) Dick : What is it, George? (not looking up) GWB :...

The Secretary of the Army said Wednesday the Barracks Video of Korean War-era barracks at Fort Bragg is unacceptable. Unacceptab...

Man, the weather has been weird this month - in other words, normal for Alaska during breakup (spring, for you southerners). All that snow...

Well, gas prices hit another record high today - what's that? Something like seventeen straight days in a row now. It's $3.75 per/ga...

In my previous profession, I was one of the military's top experts in a fairly unusual field - Information Warfare. If you have only a...

The last week has been gorgeous. Beautiful, sunny, warm. All the snow is gone, finally. Tuesday and Wednesday it was 68 and 70 degrees Fa...

I'm going to be offline for a bit this morning. I'm completing the Vista SP1 installation - which is going just fine, but I got...

As most of you know, when I purchased a new server several months back I installed Windows Vista Ultimate. The Upgrade Part II The Upgrade P...

Big "L," small "l," it doesn't matter, liberals, whatever their stripe are an unhappy lot. Conservatives on the oth...

I get mail. Sometimes it's angry or bizarre email - and sometimes it's a box. A couple of days ago I got a package slip in my m...

USS Simpson, FFG-56, just returned to her homeport of Naval Station Mayport (Florida) after six months in the Southern Pacific chasing drug ...