THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

I’ve finished several new ones lately, some I’ve reviewed at Amazon and others I haven’t, either for lack of time or indecision about how to put my conclusions about them. Even when I enjoyed them as much as I did these. Ashes of Candesce seems to be the end of an incredibly imaginative five-part series. [...]

The usual shrill babble and punchy trailer clips are flogging John Carter, Disney’s remake of Edgar Rice Burrough’s 1917 novel Princess of Mars, but it looks like a kiddie combo of Hercules and Avatar. The bad guys burn coal, you see, and are damaging the Martian atmosphere. Uh oh. John Carter is a Confederate soldier [...]

Valentine’s was an especially nice day for my old blog buddy and Web master Scott Chaffin of San Antonio: “The docs say that the chemo has achieved it’s goal and stabilized the tumor, so it’s shrunk “a considerable amount” and isn’t growing any more. There’s been no spread of cancer (or metastasis) to other parts [...]

“President Obama simply caved to the more radical activist elements of his base who almost immediately decided they would vigorously oppose Keystone, regardless of the U.S. State Department’s conclusion that it would be one of the safest pipeline systems in the United States.” It’s good to see Gov. Perry is not sullenly nursing his embarrassing [...]

SpaceX’s new rocket motor (for propulsive landings, just like the ones in the scifi stories) has “shock diamonds” in its plume. The phenom was first seen in the 1950s in the exhaust plume of the Bell X-1, the first craft to fly faster than the speed of sound. The “diamonds” are more visible in this [...]

So I finally took the Honda in to let the dealer check on a recall alert I got in the mail last week saying the trigger on the driver’s airbag was so faulty that it might cause injury or even death. Mine. Nothing like the prospect of hanging to concentrate the mind. Harmless, the dealer [...]

Driving Mr. B. to his scout meeting last night, I was startled when he suddenly said “Wow!” and pointed at the sky. It was just after dusk and the sky was still bright enough to illuminate a dense crosshatching of airliner contrails (condensed water vapor) overhead—east, west, north and south. ’Twas a busy evening up there, apparently.

Take that, Gorebot, Obozo, et al. Find your tax revenue somewhere else. Not that they’ll notice. They’re still singing the “CO2 causes global warming and the science is settled” refrain. Maybe when the glaciers move as far south as Chicago and, then, Tennessee. Ya think? Via Instapundit.

Michael Flynn’s third installment in his January Dancer series falters nae a bit, with such lines as these: “A faint band of red has cut the throat of night and bleeds across the eastern horizon.” I’m only half through this one but it’s already safe to say it’s as good as the first two about [...]

  Now we know their problem. They’re blinded by all the “snow”, obviously. UPDATE:  Make that thirty-five pounds of cocaine, in hollowed-out text books, found in bags in the UN mail room.