TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")

I did not blog it at the time, but when Trump overthrew the government of Venezuela with his military action, an article in The Atlantic no...

An Astronomy Picture of the Day  from Finland, explained at the link and in my previous post on the subject. Reposted from 2013 to ad...

The discussion thread at the WeirdToilets subreddit includes extensive discussion as to whether a "stool inspection shelf" is a c...

Those of us who live in the Upper Midwest have been focusing on record amounts of snowfall.  Meanwhile, the opposite is happening in some we...

I've been busy this past week trying to trim down my ThingsToDo list, so I've not been blogging.  But there's always time to doo...

The underside of a brick bridge illluminated by light reflected off water, with perhaps something else casting a shadow - I haven't figu...

The middle of a continent is subject to weather extremes.   Here in Wisconsin we had robins, crocuses, and first butterflies last week, then...

I don't want to end the blogging day with a picture of you-know-who at the top of the page, so I'll add this absolutely awesome phot...

When I saw this headline (and other versions of it on other news sites), I went ballistic.  I'm an old English major with an enormous v...

The stately oak tree above was featured in our local paper.  Known as the " Half-Way Tree ," this bur oak marks the midpoint be...

I found this painting posted at Uncertain Times this morning.  It took a bit of searching, but I tracked down the title - " Obedience ...

In the etymology subreddit, someone made note of the fact that in various languages, the word for "night" is the same as the word...

Putin and Russia for sure.  Oil companies that don't export via the gulf.  Weapons manufacturers. Government insiders who can make inves...

The ending is not what you expect.  It's better... Reposted from 2015 to counterbalance some of the dreadful news nowadays.

"Today I looked at a handwritten account book from 1717 . It listed a series of expenses paid by the city of Leiden (the Dutch city...