"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." (Jean-Luc Picard*) All day Wednesday...

I devoted part of Monday's " Prying ayes " post to the Exhumer™ that now rides in my TrailBlazer. My wife doesn't carry a ...

"[The birth-certificate controversy] is the most idiotic issue I've seen in American politics. And it was just a crock of nonsense....

My unambiguous dismissal of Donald Trump in yesterday's post may remind regular readers of my low regard for the former Mayor of Wasil...

The White House just released Pres. Barack Obama's original birth certificate -- y'know, the unofficial version with no legal signi...

It's been a record-setting April, rainfall-wise -- a good thing, if you ask me. The squishy back yard we curse today is the brimming res...

As luck would have it, my smaller Dead On Tools Exhumer™ showed up in the P.O. box not long after I finished yesterday's post . To r...

One sure way to ruin a perfectly good blade is to try prying something with it. We hear that caution shortly after being issued our very fi...

It's Earth Day 2011 , for what (little) it's worth, our annual reminder that we're doing more to destroy the planet than we poss...

[Adapted from the 1914 edition of U.S. War Department Pamphlet No. 1866: Description of the Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, Model of 1911, w...

Posted on USAToday.com this morning: "The Department of Homeland Security is unveiling its new two-level terror alert system today,...

Those of us who live in areas vulnerable to hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and similar natural hazards swear by our weather radios. The techn...

Yesterday's post got me thinking about the dozens of metal cups that have accompanied me over the years. On a whim, I went rummaging th...

On Saturday, Mrs. KintlaLake and I postponed our springtime yard work a week, choosing instead to head into Columbus and stroll the sidewal...

I'll conclude my peek at government comics with two on Civil Defense . The FCDA tapped cartoonist Al Capp to draw Mr. Civil Defe...

I know it's hard to imagine, but political correctness hasn't always been with us. Witness these examples, clipped from military ...

[Click  here to download a .pdf version from the University of Nebraska Libraries' Image & Multimedia Collections. For more govern...

Back in October, I confessed my mixed feelings about Benchmade's acquisition of Lone Wolf Knives . I concluded that post with this: ...

[I've been debating whether or not to post Steve Moore's piece since I read it in The Wall Street Journal almost a week ago. I pres...