PawPaw's House

If blogging is light, one reason is because I have been busy as hell at work, and the oter is that my daughter's car needs a clutch. Sh...

Oh, please! Captain Ed is all over this. New evidence is emerging that the top Democrat on the Senate committee currently investigating Jac...

Senator Joe Leiberman (D-Connecticut) reports in todays Wall Street Journal Online (registration required) that his view of the democracy in...

Ole Rob, our host over at Gut Rumbles has returned from rehab. What changes might be wrought to his blog are yet to be seen, but I suspect ...

The grandchildren just went home. We have a Sunday afternoon tradition that everyone comes to our house for the evening meal on Sunday. To...

It is raining tonite, and I made the last of my Thanksgiving visits, to Momma's house down the road. My four sisters will leave tomorro...

If your menu lately has been like mine, you've eaten enough turkey. I personally think that if I have to look at that carcass in the fr...

Instapundit (yeah, he needs the hits) links to two pieces that talk about Thanksgiving. The first thanks the faceless folks that support ...

After writing the turkey post, below, I went outside to my shed to do some straightening. I found a quarter bucket of wheelweights out ther...

Frying turkeys is a big deal here in Louisiana, where we are apt to fry anything that walks, flies, swims or crawls. Out in my shed, I have...

I retired from the Louisiana Division of Probation and Parole in 2000. They, along with the various Sheriffs and the Louisiana State Polic...

I was late getting to Wal-Mart today and went directly to the ammo counter. I got the attention of the woman behind the counter. "I...

Can you say conflict of interest? Good. Now read this article from AP and the Alexandria Daily Town Talk and tell me if a conflict of int...

In the article linked above, an Army lieutenant tells about her experience attending Harvard Law School. It is an interesting piece, and re...

Wednesday night, and I find myself without much going on, nor much motivation to get in to anything. Today was a quiet shift at work, and we...

Reading the Daily Wipe today, I found this article , with this picture: And, the caption: Pollock Mayor Jerome Scott (left) meets Katrina, a...

Reading the Town Talk , I found this article out of the Associated Press, talking about thelong road our President is on to recover his numb...

Surfing over at the Smallest Minority , I stumbled across this article about the garage gun industry in Pakistan. The weapon pictured is th...

Cool, although I am a tragic character. I usually don't do these things, but liked the format of this one. I AM MAXIMUS! Which Action H...

Back in 1981 I moved to Bayou Derbonne, LA, a small agricultural community in Natchitoches Parish, LA. Over the years, the road, the physic...