THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Five thousand of them, it seems, without family in Israel, some who made Aliyah in order to serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. Fortunately, there is someone to look after them—especially tonight as the holidays begin. I made my donation. How about you? Meantime, L’shana Tova Tikatevu.

Mr. B. had his first tooth pulled this afternoon, an extra that was blocking the proper positioning of a permanent one. The nitrous oxide helped, but the needle still hurt and the pressure and the unusual sounds of the extraction scared him a little. Poor kid. At least he got a few genuine laughs in [...]

We were both surprised to see that the rotary blade that cut through the fiberglass cast could be pressed against his finger without breaking the skin. He was glad to have the thing off after three weeks–four weeks after he broke his arm in a basketball game. Had to wash the arm, of course, as [...]

Do us all a favor, Joey. Leave Jerusalem to the adults. Go back to the circus where you belong. Or we’ll find a terrorist group that wants to take over east D.C. that you can set up talks with, while admonishing the D.C. government not to allow any development there without consideration of the terrorists. [...]

The usual Hollywood claptrap over the Oscars was on the front page of the daily, above the fold, so it didn’t just seep into consciousness when I gathered the thing off the lawn. I left it on the kitchen table for Mrs. C. and that’s when it whacked me between the eyes. Even though I [...]

Naw, that was just for anti-Bush Democrats. Fortunately, these days, all you need is a few bucks for a web site, a video camera, some friends and, bingo, comeback even to the legacy media. Which is so sensitive about its declining audience that it will even take the time to respond to you. What a [...]

The latest from Michael Yon on the oft-ignored Afghanistan campaign.

The Voyager spacecraft, still traversing the outer limits of the giant gas bubble we live in, have measured the magnetism of a nearby interstellar cloud and its implications: "The fact that the Fluff is strongly magnetized means that other clouds in the galactic neighborhood could be, too. Eventually, the solar system will run into some [...]

Gizmodo’s graphical take on the Net. Pretty woolly stuff. Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Gizmodo’s graphical take on the Net. Pretty woolly stuff. Makes you think, doesn’t it?