A View from the Beach

5 Best Crab Houses in the Chesapeake Region  I've only been to two of them.

Actually, it's not like that at all. In the rare instances that Georgia goes fishing with me, she usually reads a book in silence,...

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Perhaps I'm not the best judge of this all, because I have only a slight interest in college football, possibly as a result of having go...

Mr. Wizard puts down his students in this compilation of putdowns. He reminds me of some of my better teachers.  Learning why you're w...

The Bayeux Tapestry, documenting the Norman Conquest Descendants of the Norman Invaders in England still wealthier than "average...

In the shade of the water tower I apologize for the slow blogging lately, but hey, life happens, too.  The reason I slacked off kast nig...

MD Senators Announce $1 Million In Federal Funds To Build Chesapeake Bay Oysters  U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin (both D...

The first and only beach report for this weekend.  Yesterday was a full day.  Rainy and cool, we had to drive Alex and Kelly to the airpo...

"Tall and tan and young and lovely..." You might have come across the bossa nova classic while on hold on the phone, during a l...

In previous installments of this record of the war on the US by its native wildlife, we have recorded enemy action by Eastern Gray Squirrel...

IRS Audit of Romney Donor Raises Questions About Presidential Enemies List This column has already told the story of Frank VanderSloot ...

For my two or three regular readers, my apologies for the light blogging, and not commenting on this already.  However, one advantage of wo...

The Rule 5 post for this Saturday is Penélope Cruz.  Why?  No good reason, other than the basics:  A. Everybody loves a pretty girl B....

"I think Obama has made the gaffe of the year when he said if you created a business, you didn't build it. That phrase, ...

600 year old bra, by Fredericks Medieval bras discovered at Austrian castle Fashion experts have been surprised by the discovery of ...

World's No. 3 spam botnet gasps dying breath after tense takedown Security researchers said they dismantled the world's No. 3 spam ...

Home ranges.   As life gets safer and safer, children's freedom becomes more and more restricted. A British study called One False Mo...

REMUS 600 UUV to open new research windows on Chesapeake Bay Researchers at the University of Maryland's Horn Point Laboratory in Cam...

To steal a theme from Instapundit . If you really can't stand the music (yes, it's possible, maybe even likely) turn the musi...