A View from the Beach

Joan Collins in Empire of the Ants  WaPoo,  Edward O. Wilson, Harvard naturalist often cited as heir to Darwin, dies at 92 Edward O. Wilson,...

A pretty interesting article by David Secor in the Bay Journal, one of the better known fisheries scientists in the Bay region.  Atlantic st...

Don't we all? At Breitbart, Nicole Kidman Calls Out Ageism in Hollywood: After 40, ‘You’re Done Hollywood star Nicole Kidman has c...

H/T Insty Much stirring about the Oregon father who tricked Sloe ...

 I almost forgot, need more coffee: The Wombat is back from the hospital and cleaning up old business with  Rule 5 Sunday: Clearing Out The ...

Ready or not, Omicron is here. Balmer Sun,  Maryland reports most new COVID cases recorded in 24-hour period, 6,218, as officials warn of su...

Another astonishingly nice day. Low 50s, cloudless and with a light NW wind. Skye and I were on our own again. A fly by from the little seap...

Doxing on Boxing Day, get it? Never mind.  Anyway, as reported widely, some poor guy played a joke on Joe and Jill, by getting them to agree...

Boxing day edition: Having grown up (to the extent I did) in SoCal, palm trees at Christmas are perfectly normal. The Wombat is back from th...

An astonishing 65 F plus day, with negligible wind from the south, and mostly clear skies. Georgia wasn't with us because she was puttin...

Geez, they didn't even give it a rest on Christmas Eve. WaPoo, and the J6 Kommittee continued to lie about  Thompson says Jan. 6 commi...

From Cello Babe, Tina Guo Linked at The Daley Gator in  Christmas Posts from here and there . The Wombat is back from the hospital and cle...

I hope you got the presents you really need: Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly  Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup – Christmas Edition  and...

Overcast, and in the mid 40's with a south breeze that picked up while we walked. Despite the fairly raw weather, we met a fair number o...

Stacy McCain, Gosh, How Can I Get Readers to Pay Attention to the NFL’s COVID-19 Policy? OK, you got my attention, now what? Rachel Bush is ...

Where we take the news to get rid of it. At the NYT, cited at Haut Hair, Lawrence Tribe tries to make a case; Will Trump get away with inc...

 You guessed it: Linked at Proof Positive in the weekly  Best of the Web*  and at the Right Way in the weekly  Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama . L...

Georgia made a batch of brownie bites rolled in the meats from  Hickory nuts that I have been furiously shelling for the past week of so: ...

 Bay Journal,  Maryland orders chicken rendering plant shut down Maryland regulators have ordered a shutdown of a problem-plagued Easter...