Oddball Observations

There's a new writer on the horizon.  My long-time friend, Tom Cochrun, has started a blog: Light Breezes  from his redoubt on the Centr...

It's all I've got.  Fresh snow on our Black Hills/Mingus Mountain.

Everywhere I've been this holiday season, store owners and employees respond to my question - "how's business?" - with pos...

The U.S. Senate approved a cloture motion today that will lead to approval of the Start 2 treaty with Russia.  I'm ashamed to say that t...

SWMBO and I made a day trip down to the big city today.  We met our granddaughter, Christina, at the Chinese Cultural Center.  (No, she'...

One week from tomorrow is Chri$tma$ Day.  The time is running short for procrastinators.  They'll be chewing their nails, pulling out th...

This is a video you have to see to believe.  The performer is Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.  No kidding.