Smartest man in the room. Yeah, right.

Saturday porch pictures.

I like.

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Egyptians. Fighting tyranny with bread helmets.

When I saw this I couldn't stop laughing. Am I a bad person?

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Back when Obama was running for president, I heard a lot of positive comment on his promise to "reach across the aisle," and to tone down the partisanship. Nobody I heard this from could offer an explanation as to how this amazing thing was going to be accomplished by literally the most liberal member of congress with the most radical associations of any serious candidate since Eugene Debs, if he was elected president.

That didn't matter because everyone just liked him so much.

Now we see that what we should have expected to have happened has indeed happened. Obama is the most polarizing politician to occupy the White House in decades.

Hope and change just got flushed.

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"To think that this Mezvinsky cad has abused and abandoned sweet Chelsea — just six months after their wedding! — is the sort of thing that riles my blood!" Stacey McCain

Conservative blogger Stacey McCain springs to the defense of a damsel in distress. Only this time that damsel is Chelsea Clinton!

Tried a bit of night time photography this evening. Here are two of the experiments. Click twice to make really big.

This is what happens to a shotgun barrel when you touch off a round with an obstruction in the barrel.

Ouch!

I guess that's what two feet of snow looks like.

Is this a cloyingly cute picture of two unlikely friends, or is the dog just carrying his lunch around on his head?

The moon and Venus can be seen as the sun rises over the Alps.

A tyranny is when the people are afraid to confront the government. A democracy is when the government is afraid to be confronted by the people.

The California Mother Lode country recently produced this 11,000 plus dollar nugget to a guy swinging a metal detector. There are elephants still out there. Payday!