Ahead of Our Time My husband maintains that, once again, we're on the cutting edge culturally. The WSJ ran a piece today on " The ...

Fukushima Update The news coverage has mostly moved on to Libya and other stories, but the Fukushima troubles are hardly over. Good informa...

Wisconsin's Open Records Laws Does the law matter? I think it does. And because I think the law matters, I must take exception to a few...

Security in Papers: Let's say an FBI agent started a blog called "The G-Man as Citizen." On this blog he investigated liberal...

Economy: For years and years, I've heard arguments that higher gas prices would make Americans morally better people. It would break ou...

Variations: 'Going down to Georgia, to knock down my last game... I had not been in Washington/ many more weeks than three...' The ...

Warning: I'm under the weather a bit, and the doc gave me some antibiotics. The warnings include this: Although most antibiotics probab...

Aptly named " Badass of the week " (and probably year, decade and century at this point...) When asked by Southeast Asia Bureau re...

Making a Star: The Killer talks about how it all got started, and he talks about it from his age. Picking cotton and corn, and hoping all th...

Pegleg: Hat tip to DL Sly: Actually, the horse's name is Midnight. What most people don't realize about horses is that their legs a...

Ejjication Weren't we just talking about education? I find that I can't understand how our President uses some very simple words. ...

True but Unwanted: This author is one of those who is on to something exactly correct, but entirely unfashionable .

Home from the Road: It was a good ride. Here we are encamped on Skidaway Island. The nearby Skidaway Narrows had a battery defense during ...

What Do They Teach Them in These Journalism Schools? Over at Maggie's Farm, they're having one of their frequent debates about the ...

From the Road: If you're ever down on Highway 1, you might find this little honky tonk. Here's a closeup of the sign on the door. Ac...

And they're off! A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins. The UK prime m...

War On The Poor: Minnesota Republicans Want To Bust Poor People Who Carry Cash Sounds awful, doesn't it? But if one actually consults th...

It really doesn't matter where they are, officials in a disaster always seem to start out unable to tell it like it is. Japan's Nucl...

So the UN finally passed a resolution . UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to authorize military action, i...

I had heard that the movie "Red Dawn" was being remade, this time with the Chinese as the bad guys instead of the Russians and Cub...