Little Australia

Had to rummage through some old files to find this, a "Rockford Files"-inspired excerpt from an old, unfinished story, ...

A new NSA domestic spying piece  just came out today . I got it via Marcy Wheeler, who runs the great blog Emptywheel . Her tweet: EO1233...

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I was goofing around with my guitar while talking with Christine this morning and a sweet little Van Morrison-ish progression jumped out. Af...

I've written about these fascinating creatures before . See that longish, sticky-looking package thing, in the center of the photo? L...

Longtime American political commentator Michael Kinsley was asked to write a review  for the New York Times Book Review of " No Place t...

David Omand is a former director of the UK's GCHQ—British equivalent to the U.S.'s NSA—and the other day he wrote an opinion piece ...

If you look very closely on the cotton disc on the right, you can see the tiny sliver, like a tiny moon of the sun of the pus. Collaroy...

I was just making a tuna sandwich, straight from the can onto the bread, and talking with Christine, when a big oily chunk of tuna fell i...

The smileful and alluring Christine talks in her sleep on a fairly regular basis, and I, if I use my most dulcet tones, am sometimes able to...

Some stories, some of them among those we'd call "the best," are impossible to catch whole. You have to thrust quicker than, i...