Stonekettle Station

I did not get an iPad today.  I will probably never get an iPad.  The whole idea of the iPad fills me with a huge giant enormous feeling...

As always, the editors disavow any foreknowledge of the following events. I awoke to a foul taste in my mouth, as if I’d been tea bagg...

For a long time I resisted joining Facebook. But the truth of the matter is that if you maintain an online persona, it’s almost required t...

Well, looks like Walter Wagner and the anti-LHC crowd were wrong, eh? Big surprise there. The LHC is at full power this morning doing record...

Been a bitch of a last couple of days, and frankly I just haven't had the time. I have a number of personal and business obligations tha...

  I don’t just turn things on the lathe. I do other stuff in the woodshop too. Today’s project is a shadow box for a retiring US Air F...

My father in law, the man I wrote about here , passed away tonight. He went quietly, with a number of his children present.  He’s been in a ...

I think this is just plain brilliant. This should be the preferred response to Westboro Baptist Church everywhere. Tip of the hat to Alesia ...

Interesting Strategy, don’t you think? Blaming the victim, that is. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) blamed Democrats for the th...

  This is a big fucking deal! -   Vice President, Joe Biden The VP didn’t realize his mic was on yesterday at the HCR signing. B...

As Thomas Dewar said on Facebook , “It’s been twelve hours now since the House passed HCR, and still no jackbooted government agents ha...

The Health Care Reform bill passed the House.   You know what that means:     Christ, I hope I can make it to work tomorro...

Every village has at least one. Here’s ours: Now, since I took this picture with my Blackberry as I was passing through the light at t...

Since I've retired from the military, there isn't much adventure in my life. Today: adventure , danger, reckless abandon! ...

Dear Makers of Firefox, What. In. The. Fuck ? One of you needs to get slapped upside the head.   I upgraded to the latest version of...

Pretend you’re a Republican member of Congress. You’ve spent the past nine months doing your damnest to make sure 47 million Americans can...

Spent all evening in the shop. I didn’t have time to write a post, but this SMBC pretty much sums up what I was thinking about:

Attention Phoenix Visitor: I see you hitting this post almost every single day. My curiosity is getting the better of me. What is it that yo...