The Adventures of Bob

If you’re minimally knowledgeable about such things, when you saw the header, you said, “Oh sure – the Spruce Goose.” At least, that’s what ...

There are rumors around the web that Donald Trump is buying Facebook likes, retweets, and even entire websites : Inside the most pro-Trump...

The BBC informs us that some other governments are as adept as ours at averting their eyes from obvious corruption among the elite. Malay...

The term above is a political cliche, referring to a phenomenon that occurs during every campaign, during which odd candidates (e.g., Howard...

Maybe it's been brought up elsewhere, but CNN’s guy, Don Lemon (never heard of him before), should be called out for his lack of profess...

The US isn’t the only country with an illegal immigration problem. Here’s how Hungary is dealing with theirs. Hungarian soldiers started ...

More on the collapse of Venezuela, this time considerably more tragic than the beer shortage. Prednisone and Cellcept, immunosuppressive d...

I haven't talked here about the fact that I'm being treated for prostate cancer. Cancer isn't a very amusing topic. Except when...

Dennis Rodman has announced his choice for president. Guess who? Actually, who else could it be? When a clown makes an endorsement, natura...

This is pretty far off-topic even by my very loose standards, but I found it really fascinating. In the Czech Republic, there is a church ca...

RealClearPolicy had an interesting item yesterday on how Obama could get around the 22nd Amendment and run for a third term. Of course, he ...

Most Europeans want Greece gone. YouGov polls show that a) Most Europeans would like to see Greece out of the Eurozone; and b) Most think th...

Well, yes, it's true that the whole point of this post was to justify slipping this picture in here. Clever of me, wasn't it? ...

China’s aggressive moves have stoked concerns throughout Asia (we’ve discussed the South China Sea as a coming trouble spot before -- mo...

Anyone well-grounded in English knows about certain tricky words that sound alike but have different meanings. An example is ‘lead’ (a min...

The BBC tells us about a rescue operation in Peru. The Peruvian army says it has rescued 39 people from a farm where the Shining P...

Today would be her 60th birthday. This picture was taken in the spring/summer of 1980, when she was 24, a few months before we married. ...

Answer honestly – had you ever heard of Cecil the Lion before this week? Had any of the people filling the internet with outrage ever h...