Little Blog In The Big Woods

I've been stymied for days for an acceptable non-review topic here- most of the world is simply too utterly derailed to bear closer scr...

So it turns out my first review will be of Google's "AdSense".  Not rats.  Or, maybe it is rats.  You know, the nifty way Goo...

You can now relax. We have some mildly amusing, and wholly bemusing evidence today that there's nothing all that urgent, and the world h...

In the Polka Dot Gallows category. Today's cartoon strip from Brewster Rockit is the most intelligent commentary on current political ...

I have started new posts several times in the past weeks- and never managed to get them finished to the point where they were ready to put ...

My favorite of the various responses to the Royal Hoo Hah: Or, for a full page view via Tom TDB's Facebook process; click here .

Sorry to be so quiet- this is a crazy busy time of year for us; one of our crops is chestnuts, and guess when you sell them? The sales win...

That's a well known literary allusion, in case you didn't know. Ah, well, it was well known in that world now fading fast behind u...

We've been having fun here with our "land hurricane"; and the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded, either in the USA, or...

Super quickie. Just wanted to let the world know I am unleashing a new neologism (sick). Just hit me as I was composing scathing reposts to...

I got so many chuckles out of this, I just have to pass it on.  It's not "green" or science or nothin- just a funny commentary...

  Not dead here, just slowly subsiding into the great mud sea.   It's been a strange 5 months in Lake Wobegon...  so to speak.  :-) ...

Now that we all know economic "growth" is dead- the realization is spreading, and turning up in non-intuitive places. I t...

SciFi writer Larry Niven, in his younger days, proliferated "Finagle's Law", which is basically Murphy's Law (Anything th...

What the hay, we might as well get a chuckle or two as the Alpaca lips nibble on us. The video ends in that fashion, I'm sure, because...

Yesterday much ado was generated by Thomas Friedman; the NYT econ-astrology (trying that out, feonix; thanx...) columnist.   Friedman ha...

LOL!!  Huge day on Wall Street!  And the headlines go wild!! And 40% looks like a BIG jump- until you realize - it wasn't only 40 PERC...

Amid all the discussions of tough times, inequity, and iniquity; in all the fault finding and divisive partisan finger pointing, all the e...