The Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake

Preheat oven to 400 ° . Prepare 1 pie crust (regular or cornmeal). Roll out pie crust and form into 9" pie pan. Parbake pie crust ...

As many of my readers are no doubt aware, I'm currently preparing to go back to school this fall in order to get my MBA.  The latest ste...

Opinions regarding the proper response to the situation in Libya cut across partisan lines, with the full spectrum from not-our-problem isol...

While watching the Super Bowl on Sunday (Packers won the Super Bowl! Packers won the Super Bowl! Packers won the Super Bowl!), I was struck ...

I recently decided that while I'm happily unemployed, I can occupy my time by making myself some things that I will find useful in the f...

This is an original creation that worked out pretty well for a quick weeknight meal.  I know dried beans taste way better and are a lot chea...

I've been having a hard time deciding whether I really have a reason to keep blogging. While I'm as plugged into politics as ever, ...

Hello, friends. Long time, no see, I know. I'm currently working on applications to business schools, which means I've been writing...

Okay, this high-speed rail madness needs to get addressed.  Most of the opposition to HSR attacks it either as a wildly expensive boondoggle...

Do you ever feel like you're just going in circles, like no matter how long you drive, you find yourself back where you started? I'v...

I apologize for the lack of posting these past ten days.  I was a bit overwhelmed with the process of getting out of the Army, and since the...

Everyone can celebrate the accomplishment and heroism of a man like Joseph Kittenger, who took the "long, lonely leap", skydiving ...

Indexed is a charming little webcomic that's almost always good for a quick morning chortle.  It's a lot of fun to see the way she ...

I finally got a chance to try out the recipe for fasinjoon that I got off one of my Iraqi teachers three years ago . It turned out pretty we...

I wrote a bit the other day about the ongoing hate speech trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders .  The Wilders trial, of course, encompass...

In his September Diary , John Derbyshire shares a quote from the American music critic James Huneker regarding Chopin's Etude Op. 25 No....