Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

About the Gulf oil well gusher disaster in the making: We sure dodged a bullet with that Alaskan snowbilly hick, didn't we?

As if we needed any more proof that Congressional and Senatorial term limits is an idea who's time has come, Pete Stark (D-CA, of course...

I have been contacted by a Ford representative concerning the Mustang. I filled out the information on the Ford website and built the car...

My Mustang showed up in the mail today. Not the car itself, of course, but the insurance check I was waiting on, or rather the notification ...

Eldest daughter, who has a medical condition she needs some pretty expensive meds for, recently was told that the program she is on to help ...

They're coming along fast and furious now. This one comes by way of The Other McCain . Tea Party News . Cause playing nice has worked s...

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This essay was not written by any guy named Caudill , retired Marine or not. In fact, I doubt that this fraud even exists as I have never ...

As I write this Father's Day is officially over, and has been for two and a half hours. I called my Dad at 9 PM and talked to him for a ...

I'm better now. Back to your normally scheduled (sporadic) blogging. The big thing about this story that I find hysterical is that the...

I'm back to work after a two week absence. There was a lot of emails to wade through and a lot of things to catch up on. My co-workers ...

I got the notification in yesterday's mail. Laura did indeed get the spot right next to Mom. I would like to thank the staff at Florida...

I have followers. Four of them. (UPDATE: Correction, five of them. Welcome aboard Cary!) I'm honored. I'll try to make it worth yo...

It's car fixing day at the Refuge. TDP has had a persistent oil leak that we are striving diligently to repair, and the mighty Rampage h...

This is what I've been driving for the past week. Laura and I had talked about getting one, but when she got too sick to drive we stoppe...

Renee Ellmers is running for Congress for NC2, my district. After the jackassery that current Congress critter Bob Etheridge recently dis...

I've been dealing with a fair bit of guilt for the past week. There is a thing called "survivor's guilt" where the one tha...

Home again, home again. We stopped off by a friend's house on the way to drop off some things that had gotten left at our house during t...

We took Laura to Florida National Cemetery today. When we got there we went over the paperwork and I asked if my special requests to place h...

The day started overcast, and we left home a little before ten AM. Late, as usual, which would have driven Laura absolutely bonkers, but ty...