THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Snoop’s shot of one of our backyard buddies. It’s been long enough since the Rangers lost the series that it’s safe for the bird to show his face again.

Snoop’s good work from his recent visit to the Rancho, this one of the painted cows in front of the Texas State History Museum in downtown Austin.

Just a taste of the fauna at the rancho these days: our little buddy the Tufted Titmouse. I think my pal Snoopy-the-Goon took this one on his recent visit.

“This post is mainly for my friends abroad, wherever they are, who may have trouble projecting their beliefs and experiences onto our small but peculiar country…. “It started in a small way, with the cottage cheese boycott. Was it the surprising success of the Facebook-led “uprising” or other reasons, but the unrest spread and continues [...]

Mubarak to Obama: Drop Dead! Via Simply Jews. UPDATE: Does anyone in Washington know how to play this game? Barry certainly doesn’t.

Mahmoud Salem, aka Sandmonkey, outs himself as he returns to blogging from Cairo and on Twitter. “Now, I am not a leader of this movement, and god knows I would be loathe to name myself as a spokesperson for the 5 million individuals nationwide who have joined these protests. If anything, I am simply a [...]

One of the places Snoopy and I were planning to visit in October was the Golan Heights. Now he’s recovering from a heart attack and I’m trying to decide whether I’m still adventurous enough at sixty-six to go there alone. Fortunately, there’s always Michael Totten, and his good reporting, editing and picture-taking. This piece of [...]

Rare reader and longtime blogging pal Snoopy-the-Goon in Israel had a heart attack today. His son emailed me about it and said a stent had been put in the offending artery and the recovery seems to be going okay. He also advised I should cancel my plans to come visit them in October, but I’m [...]

A friend who has a license-to-carry—mainly because he’s in the diamond business—was the other evening extolling the virtues of the AK-47 for home protection. I said what do you want that peasant gun for, when you could have a nice M-4? Upon which he began a woeful tale of reduced powder in the 5.56 cartridges, [...]

My Israeli friend “Snoopy the Goon” (he prefers anonymity on the Web) has written a nice review of my Civil War historical battle novel and posted it on his blog with links to the Amazon sales page and the book’s new blog, “Knoxville 1863, the novel.” Thanks, Snoop. Considering that you don’t normally like military [...]