I Want One: A hoverbike that can reach 10,000 feet and 173 MPH. It can do this, if the claim is accurate, with an engine substantially sma...

Michelle Bachmann for President: The Wall Street Journal believes she is running, and so do I; for some time her fundraising emails have cl...

True Selves: We all have different impulses competing for dominance, and a voice of reason trying to govern them -- or at least to prioritiz...

Logos : He said there were reports of hundreds of women attacked in some areas of Libya, which is in the grip of a months-long internal rebe...

Bladework: A reader sends this Czech master's page . That is remarkable work by a true artist.

Depletable Self-Control "Why can't more poor people escape poverty? Psychologists have a radical new explanation," reports Th...

Deadbeat Dad Who Represents Himself Has a Fool for a Client I guess the family court judge had had just about enough of this guy , who was r...

Law and Order I've been inspired by Grim's discussions of lawlessness, as well as his friend's wake, to use this space to memori...

Aieeee -- a Balrog The Puyehue volcano in Chile : The linked Atlantic article has twenty more of these amazing pictures. Don't miss the...

When the System Works I know you've probably all heard about this case by now. Someone at Bank of America authorized a foreclosure on ...

Malaysian "Good Wives' Club" I'd like to put this story from Malaysia before our female readers and commenters. "Isl...

Wake of a Highlander: Last weekend, we attended the wake of an old friend of the family. He was quite a man. As the photo indicates, he was...

Bird-Cage Liners What is college for ? Suppose I start a print newspaper tomorrow. I might think I’m selling excellent journalism, while my ...

Society, State, and Man: A side discussion below deserves a top-line response. One of the things I've learned over the last few years i...

Why would Paul Revere...? Legal Insurrection makes an observation , and then forwards a question. In fact, as pointed out at Conservatives4P...

What's the Crime Again? I'm not a John Edwards fan, to put it mildly. But I confess I can't quite understand what crime he comm...

Stating the Obvious: It's always nice when a comprehensive and expensive study proves what everyone already knew .

The Decline of Violence: I generally think there isn't enough of it; and perhaps I am right : Steven Pinker is currently working on a bo...

Now This Sounds Like Fun: When I was younger, I once ran down a deer until it turned to bay. It was only a baby. I let it go, of course --...

DEPT. OF "IF THIS HADN'T HAPPENED I WOULD HAVE BEEN FORCED TO MAKE IT UP" Key graf: The life size "Dungkey" introduc...