Natural Slaves: Rush Limbaugh , radio show: [T]here is no equality. You cannot guarantee that any two people will end up the same. And you c...

Mozzarella A culinary milestone! For some time now I've been wanting to learn to make cheese. I sent off for some basic supplies and c...

Rescuers Break Through to Trapped Chilean Miners Some weeks back they were warning this might not happen for three or four months. Now it ...

Hunting Season Arrives: This reflective, hunter-blaze-orange collar provided at my expense, in the hope of avoiding any regrettable misunder...

Liberal Sexism: Welcome aboard , Ms. Powers. Check the sidebar; you won't have any trouble figuring out which section is the relevant o...

Bill Whittle on the TEA Party Core Values: My own sense is a bit different: I think Constitutional Government, rather than "small gove...

Last weekend I attended a ceremony in Huntington, Long Island for the traveling Vietnam Wall exhibit that is stopping in two hundred cities ...

That's Interesting... Dad29 points out a small spike in grain futures . By "small," I mean all the way to the lock limit; by ...

Mysore Rasam Someone on a comment board the other day broke into a discussion to announce that she'd just made a spicy tomato lentil bro...

Greatest obituary photo EVAR . Kurt Albert, who died on September 27 aged 56, invented the “redpoint” or free style of climbing – in which t...

The Beautiful Red Danube This is the kind of pollution we ought to be focusing on instead of CO2: water pollution. A horrific toxic spill ...

"OK, that ain't your girl right there" Here's the difference between laws that stay on the books despite deep divisions ov...

A Pub Joke: I'm busy this week, and have little time to think. But perhaps you'd like a pub joke... told in the style of Geoffrey C...

Church Buildings That Aren't Awful Since we can't post images in the comments, I've been looking up the churches that several of...

~Witch: Pity. We could use a good witch, so long as she was our witch.

A Very Odd Piece of Philosophy: Professor of philosophy J. M. Bernstein tries to grasp the Tea Party . He's quite alarmed by us, but I ...

Earthquake: Yesterday: 'Conservatives are barely-literate anti-intellectuals who detest the educated.' Today: 'These Tea Party...

Soul-Sucking Architecture If church architecture is going to be soul-sucking, it ought to be in the sense of drawing the sinners in. This s...