The Deficit Crisis Not just the budget deficit, but that other one: the attention deficit. Now's when I'm really missing Fred Thomp...

Afghanistan: I am not currently free to discuss this subject, but I would like to hear what the lot of you think about it. Here are some ot...

A Historic Moment: A Turkish admiral sails into Abu Dhabi "for the first time in centuries," says the news; and longer still sinc...

Singing in the Rain : A local theater was showing it tonight; I didn't get by, but I regret that I couldn't make the time. It was a...

The Spider & the Diving Bell This Discover Magazine site's column called "Not Exactly Rocket Science" is one of the best f...

Birds Do It, Bats Do It Do our bodies contain an ancestral but atrophied gift for "seeing" magnetic fields ? Birds navigate with ...

Discretion The Supreme Court has just ruled that 1.5 million women cannot proceed in the form of a class-action lawsuit against WalMart for...

Who's Integrating? A remarkable comment from the UK: Muslims are integrating into British society better than many Christians, accordin...

Father's Day: Today is Father's Day. I want to tell you about a man I know, a friend of mine who is a very good father. He is also...

Gun & Garden: Via The Sage of Knoxville , a 1 4-round pump-action bullpup shotgun for home defense. OK, as far as it goes. It doesn...

The Siege and Women of Beauvais: In this week in 1472, Charles of Burgundy was advancing upon the town of Beauvais in France. She was a pro...

Viking Music from Oslo:

Weapons of Less Than Mass Destruction Carole Anne Bond, a married but infertile resident of Pennsylvania, stole an unidentified "causti...

The Old Rolling Skies What's more beautiful than a thunderstorm on the water? Especially if you get to see it in time-lapse . There...

And Now for Something Completely Different My neighbor, who knows that we feel socially inadequate because we lack a golf-cart, has sent me ...

This Sounds Familiar: I say this very thing every day, but I didn't expect to read it in the New York Times . But in the face of recent ...

There Went a Man: Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, may you rest in peace . On the outbreak of war Leigh Fermor first joined the Irish Guards but wa...

Predictions: Let's say that a brain scan can identify children who are 75% likely to have criminal records before they turn 30. The que...

Good Start: Looks like Rep. Bachmann is off and running . The congresswoman used her bluntness and charm to overshadow the men at the GOP de...

Augustine and Friendship: I find myself challenged by a claim that I found in Dr. David Grumett's "Arendt, Augustine and Evil"...