Blue Heron Blast

The Alaskan storm has slowly traveled down the California coast and finally found us in Del Mar. Got here with a real bang. The cacophonou...

"The State of California Department of Fish and Game is ACTIVELY raiding auction houses and antique shows, confiscating ivory. It is ...

News today that three new anti abortion bills passed the Arizona legislature today, one of which officially defines pregnancy as two weeks b...

If I am scoring this one at home I have to give it to Burton. Chet is Chet and always great but Albert goes from playing every note in the...

Santorum folds, Mitt fails to fire with the conservatives...Why do I have the feeling that things are unfolding perfectly according to New...

In his Easter message this sunday from the square in Rome, the Pope said that mankind was groping in the darkness. I agree with the hol...

I borrowed the 70/400mm 4.5-5.6D Nikon zoom from Doug yesterday. I couldn't wait to drive home to see what else I could pick up with i...

This lady was known as the pride of the Phillipines, a country that really loves its crooners. You can get shot for being off key in a kar...

I have finally finished Jon Meacham's  American Lion , the Pultizer winning biography of President Andrew Jackson. It was a long and dif...

It may be me, but I have a bad feeling that race relations at present are worst than they have been in decades. I don't know the reason ...

Willie Dixon, accompanied by the guitar practitioner who coaxed the sweetest and most sonorous notes ever out of a fretboard, Mr. T-Bone W...

I had been looking at the nest these past few weeks with no small sense of suspicion. Yes, the female redtail hawk was standing some sort ...

I sort of had to expunge myself from my genetics forum. The long and short of it is that my big mouth got me in trouble again. A few mon...

I went phone shopping this week. I am not a big tech guy, hovering somewhere between luddite and grudging pragmatist forced into using the...

Ripple, an interesting new concept in "trust" currency.

Reprinted from today's Murfreesboro Daily News Journal Tennessee Legislature wants Scopes trial rerun By Staff Reports At a ti...

A woman in Wisconsin, working a comparable job to a man, makes about seventy five cents to every dollar he makes.  This results in a loss ...

A couple of stories on the food front. Monsanto is threatening to sue the state of Vermont over a proposed bill that requires producers t...

Bulldozers at Chavez Ravine The Los Angeles Times has an interesting story tonight about Los Desterrados, the poor mexicans whose homes...

No sooner than I wrote about liking the comfortable, old and familiar than I hit the wrong button on my blogger layout page and lost my ...

Michelle Duggar is a christian woman from Arkansas who has nineteen children. She doesn't put much stock in the concept of overpopulat...

The connectivity of our world is increasing so rapidly, exponentially, on a daily basis. I was cruising the web today when I found a link ...

Please be aware that we at the Sommers domicile have officially declared never ending war without quarter on our eternal enemy, the inf...

I watched Van Jones on Bill Maher the other night and he alleged that Judge Scalia made some pretty awful comments during the recent healt...

Disregard the screwed up lyrics on the video. Karla has a special voice. Garth Hudson on accordion.

Leslie and I decided to forgo our normal Sunday brunch at Le Bistro and catch up with some good friends on the coast. We left extra earl...