Hurricanes: Although my experience with hurricanes is less than Tex's, I've done both the ride-out and the evacuation. I slept thro...

"The Greatest, the Longest in Duration, the widest in Extent, of all the Tempests and Storms that History gives any Account of since th...

"It Can't Happen Here" The news this weekend is saturated with public officials calming urging people to evacuate in the path ...

I Don't Think Hank Did It This Way: Have a good weekend. UPDATE: For Mr. Blair, who likes Cowboys and Aliens, a recording from t...

Microbial Warfare I recommend this "Not Rocket Science" article about a possible new approach to the control of mosquito-borne de...

Tough Questions, Indeed: Bill Keller of the NYT constructed a series of pointed questions for Republicans seeking the nomination, on the su...

Kinky Friedman's Endorsement: Naturally, this is a subject of interest for the cowboys among you. It's a glowing endorsement . He i...

The Horror, The Horror: Walter Shapiro is really frightened by this Rick Perry business . He offers several reasons, the most laughable of ...

You Know What This World Needs? More Women in Prostitution. So suggests Dr. Catherine Hakim , in what is described as a carefully-researche...

Swords and Bikinis: This would be a good start, if they knew how to use the swords. As it is, a masterwork in the discipline of marketi...

Well. That's something I wouldn't do.

Your Brain Makes up What You See From Not Rocket Science , some optical illusions that you'll swear are a trick. In the image below , t...

The Great Debt Experiment Does public debt work only when the citizenry values so highly what the debt will buy that they're willing to ...

Public Service Announcement: The first cool mornings are upon us, and I saw a fat herd of deer on Thursday's four-mile run around the ru...

"Conan: What Is Best In Life?" I saw the new Conan movie. It will not survive. It may be closer to Robert E. Howard's...

The Friar's Tale: Along the line of the last post, some modern friars just as determined to smite evil as the one in Chaucer's tale...

Hell and Beauty: Via Arts & Letters Daily , an investigation into claims that the famed blues guitarist Robert Johnson might have sold h...

Fifteen Minutes of Daily Exercise: Fifteen minutes a day of exercise adds three years to your life, according to FuturePundit . HOUSTON -- T...

Guess It Depends on Your Peers For years now, in nearly every discussion of global warming climate change climate disruption, I've enc...

On the Road: My little sister writes from Idaho, where she stopped for lunch.