Language and Worldview If our mother tongue does not actually restrict what we're able to think, as was the fashionable belief for a tim...

Maps of American Cities by Ethnic Breakdowns: A very interesting project, but based on 2000 census data. The author says he will do new one...

Taleb on the Stimulus: Our favorite living economist, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, thinks the stimulus made the economy worse . It's hard to ...

Article V is also part of the Constitution: There has been a slew of commentary criticizing the TEA Party movement for being shackled to th...

The TEA Party and Andy-By-God Jackson: It's enough to make a politician nervous , these historic similarities. Established politicians d...

1930s Fun: Arts & Letters Daily often has book reviews, but this is their first catalog review that I can recall. Today, left-leaning ...

What's going on with the Asians? How come they're employed at roughly similar levels no matter what kind of education they manage t...

What Are We Playing? It's a shame the Street banned this piece; it's one of the more perfect opportunities for realizing that men an...

Event Horizons: Here's a story from local Georgia news that would be horrifying but not shocking if it had happened in Atlanta. What m...

More on the Harvest Moon Grim's moon picture got me thinking how I never can quite keep straight how moonrise and moonset work. I know ...

TV Tropes I was warned that if I went down this rabbit hole, I wouldn't come back up for a while. I got to reading about a cheap litera...

The First Sunrise of Autumn: I hope you were all able to see the Harvest Moon last night or early this morning.

A Lie: Salon magazine has a piece about a young woman who accused her father of molestation... and how she came to understand , years later...

Let Me Just Say... ...to start with, that pants or shorts with slogans on the backside should be banned on general principle. That said, I ...

Shell Games Kevin Williamson at the National Review nicely sums up what's so enervating about the usual tax-cuts-vs.-stimulus-spending ...

Visits Our friend from way, way back has been our houseguest since last Thursday, but has gone home now. She brought the rain with her, I...

Faith Followup: RCL had a comment he was unable to post for some reason. It follows: ...for two centuries religion has been gradually givin...

Fans From bi-planes to faux-helicopters to weird twisty shapes, all kinds of innovative ceiling fan designs are on display at WebUrbanist , ...

Mead and Meat Pie: The bounty of late summer. We're still getting a few peppers out of the garden. I'm ready for fall, though.

Arlington: Via Cassandra , a truly horrifying story . How has this happened at Arlington?