Memorial Day: This weekend we remember warriors fallen, and honor warriors living. RangerUp is doing so by donating a fifth of their profit...

A Woman's Voice: T99 had a post about women who sing; I suppose I might post up a particular favorite of mine. Her name is Hope: Hope ...

The Roots: Today's xkcd: The alt text says: Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not ...

Chick Voices I'm overcome this morning by the need for some of my favorite women singing. First, Sandy Denny in Richard Thompson's ...

States As Labs This handy site lets you view the unemployment rates for one or more states over the last few years as a graph contrasting w...

Who Speaks to Us I guess some graduating seniors get Winston Churchill or John F. Kennedy, while others get comedians who feel compelled to ...

Hegel Goes West: Via Arts & Letters Daily , a story on the perils of bad philosophy : In 1856, a Prussian immigrant named Henry Conrad B...

Neighborhood Curators I've been a suburban gal most of my life, with brief forays into other modes. When I went off to college, for ins...

The End of the World I don't know, maybe the world really did come to an end this weekend. The Texas legislature not only came to an ag...

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...