Hiking in a Hurry?

I like to hike, a lot, but I just do not understand this:

Outdoor adventurers call this pastime speed hiking. It combines the muscle-building benefits of altitude gain with fast-paced aerobic activity, which keeps heart rates high. Fast hikers usually

Billy:

I know that feeling.

For what it’s worth.

Ann Althouse blogs about a horrible way for women to meet eligible men. “When women take classes in tennis, wine-tasting, sailing, etc., in the hope of meeting men:”

Men prefer to look at something they have decided to

Yes, I know, I’ve not been posting.

It’s been a weird week, which will, if all goes correctly, culimnate in trading in my faithful and much loved Safari conversion van, BitsBox, for a newer truck. Details to follow, and a

That storm finally showed up.

Of course, it’s mostly to the east of us, now, as you see… (Drill it for full size)  It’s going down just as I anticipated it would be.  If I’m not mistaken I predicted in

How did Sara Wheeler become a pariah to the Atlanta homosexual population and ostricized from coast to coast?

One she dared to be mother first and advocate for the best interests of her chlld.   Two, she dared to suggest that

On Talk to Action, Frederick Clarkson has his knickers in a twist over very rare anti-abortion violence.  As outraged a Clarkson is over violence that so rare that practically is non existent, he is morally blind to the wanton

Uh-oh….

LOS ANGELES —AP– A Norman Rockwell work stolen from suburban St. Louis more than three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg’s art collection, the FBI announced Friday.

The painting, Rockwell’s “Russian Schoolroom,” was snatched during a late-night burglary

For those who have written for updates:

Alex is home, and doing well, as of last night.  Thanks for your notes of support and concern.

“His neck was completely snapped.” 

So was decribed one Wagner Segura, late of Costa Rica.  A few lessons for life, don’t piss into the wind, don’t drink warm beer and don’t mess with a Marine.  A lesson Segura failed

I see the first Wendy’s has closed. Mostly, it’s because of the way the area of downtown Columbus has developed.  Said, really.

They’ve a plan to move the memorabilia already inside the restaurant, to the Columbus suburbs.  But, since

These are pics I’ve taken in the last 24 hours around my home town as I ran errands.

You will have heard by now that we’re getting clobbered by snow up here…. again. Actually, at the moment, the accumulation isn’t so bad; we caught perhaps four and a half inches outside my door last night. However, the the

Hitch:

If there is a sectarian war in Iraq today, or perhaps several sectarian wars, we have to understand that this was latent in the country, and in the state, and in the society all along. It was not the

I might suppose that at her arraignment hearing, the district attorney argued that she was a flght risk.

Mike Schneider, Chicago Sun-Times,  reports on Peyton Place in space.

ORLANDO, Fla. — An astronaut drove 900 miles and donned