Stonekettle Station

As those who know me personally can attest, I am a hopeless coffee addict. I’ll put up with a lot of unpleasantness - as long as there’s c...

The media this week is full of articles about former US President and conservative icon, Ronald Reagan. If he were still alive, he’d be 10...

Long weekend. We spent it in the Interior of Alaska. We stopped by Skunk Place Kennels to visit our friends, famed Iditarod mushers Aliy...

It’s been a week now, since the attempted murder of Congresswomen Giffords. A week for things to shake out. Couple of observations: - ...

[j] ournalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to c...

I got some fan mail in relation to the previous post on last weekend’s attempted assassination.  Here’s a sample: Morning BUTThole...

Update is near the bottom of the post I’ve had all day to think about this event. And the more I do, the more enraged I get.   For...

Well, I suppose it was inevitable. The Navy fired Captain Owen Honors, Commanding Officer of USS Enterprise. It’s a damned shame, isn’t ...

There’s this great line in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Inferno . Inferno , for those of you not familiar with the genre, is a modern...