Apocalypse yet? Harold Camping: That undead preacher from Poltergeist: Coincidence? I think not.

Who's this 'We,' Kemosabe? National Geographic says: We used to think agriculture gave rise to cities and later to writing, art...

Knowledge & Belief: Here is an interesting article from the frontier between science and philosophy. A scientist from CERN is talking ...

Manifest Destiny: Lenin in 1917 ... 'You know what probably won't happen soon? A Communist revolution.' Prediction is hard work...

Your Free Market at Work: Headline: "Is college too pricey to pay off? 57% say yes ." Percentage of Americans with a college deg...

The Control of Nature If you've never read John McPhee's fine piece on the Atchafalaya River Basin's ambition to capture the Mi...

Son! H/t: Our brothers at the BSBFBs .

No Right to Resist: McQ is rather outraged over this, and with some reason. Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta...

Avoiding a Mugging: A philosophy major, who has also had the honor of being a victim of mugging multiple times , chimes in. So . . . I was w...

Ignore that Heathen, Chums. Onward to Adventure! It's amazing how reasonable this course of action can seem, when presented in the form...

Le 'Cow-boy,' c'est moi. Good to see everyone's favorite unilateralist buckaroo out there defending American interests. The...

Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid . Burn a US flag at LSU? Really? He wanted to burn the flag in the name of “due process f...

I Trust You Have Seen... ...Matty O'BlackFive's post identifying the SEAL who killed Bin Laden . More seriously, though, see Froggy...

Twas a Short Song... But a good one. That seems like the sort of song that must be based on something. Joe, I think old popular opera songs...

Use the Force: The comments are the best part of this parody. It has its moments, though, even in the main text: When the end came for Ken...

Continuing Education My neighbor, who lurks here, referred me to a website with short education videos on a variety of subjects. They'...

The Decline and Fall of Motherhood: The New York Times has an interesting article on motherhood that I find, having read it, to fit in bet...

On David Stokes' Thoughts on George W. Bush: I ran into this article recently - about George W. Bush in the aftermath of Bin Laden'...

On Noam Chomsky's Thoughts on Bin Laden: Nor shall lilt of harp those warriors wake; but the wan-hued raven, fain o'er the fallen, h...

Note to Self: Remove Iran from Vacation Itinerary Not a good week to be in the service of the President of Iran . Or me, if I were there! ...