Face-Blind: What if you couldn't recognize faces ? It's an amazing faculty, actually: try this optical illusion , and you'll se...

and . . . Action The completed Christmas tree, two full weeks before the day. And all the ornaments boxes stashed back away, whew. Now we...

If You Must Filibuster... ...do it the old fashioned way . Sanders began his speech on Friday at 10:24 a.m. and wrapped up just before 7 p.m...

Now That's Something You Don't See Every Day: It's kind of amazing to watch this clip, and see (a) the current President of the ...

Ode to the Gun A friend sent me a collection of gun sayings, some I hadn't heard before: "Those who hammer their guns into lows, wi...

Druid Fix Update -- Lights Before I'd used up all the lights in the box, the NPH diffidently suggested there might be enough already. B...

A Poem from 中国: The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke. Except when it's not . I had imagined being there beneath sunlight with the procession...

December Night Sky I've just found a fine site for guiding our night sky observations. I just enjoyed watching all three short videos ...

Druid Fix I have to admit that last year I was -- just very slightly -- disappointed in my Christmas tree. The selection at the local tree-...

Reasons for Hope:

Well. Isn't this interesting . So, other than this having something to do with the situation in Korea, why would you do that in December...

Rest in Peace: My condolences to the friends and family of Elizabeth Edwards .

No Longer Shocked: What happens when the art world can no longer shock us ? [O]nce you've seen Duchamp's "Fountain" and go...

DADT: Cassandra asked for a link to the post I wrote last weekend at BLACKFIVE, Against DADT Repeal . The interesting thing about that post...

The Politics of Disgust and Humanity: The American Spectator has a review of Dr. Martha Nussbaum's book From Disgust to Humanity (hat...

A cappella rhapsody: I just don't seem to be interesting in anything late except food and singing: I'm afraid this is a very silly a...

Mahogany Duck We're thinking the recipe we remember was something like this one , which uses tea, of all things. We had forgotten the t...

Soused Hog's Face Nothing gets the NPH going in the morning like a request for an obscure recipe. He's been pulling all kinds of bo...

A Young Leader I drove to Houston today for a terrific shape-note singing. This youngster is the newest member of an extensive and famous s...

Brined Turkey Mark asked for our turkey brining recipe in a comment below, so here it is, from an old Food & Wine article. This is guar...