Hypotheticals: If you should ever be sitting on your front porch in the dusk, smoking a long-stemmed pipe that a friend sent you because he ...

NASCAR v. POTUS: One thing we've probably learned over the last few years is that NASCAR fans are more likely than not to dislike the Pr...

Another Dumb Law: I hope none of you in California ever use babysitters . Dubbed the babysitting bill, AB 889 would require families to prov...

Speaking of Errors: Iran unhappy with Made-in-China Korans . Iran's Organization of the Holy Quran is scolding Iranian publishers who...

Oh, You Meant Mr. Crow: I don't have it in me to even be annoyed by this sort of lazy paranoia . However, I'm amused by CNN's ...

Brains, Bodies, and Symbiosis Until quite recently, I've always been Hygeia's darling, particularly when it comes to digestive heal...

The Constitutional Right to Denial A federal district judge in Dallas has just struck down a Texas law requiring a physician to supply a pr...

Epic: In the 15th century , when Europeans first began moving people and goods across the Atlantic, a... stowaway somehow made its way to th...

Discontented Science: Bryan Fischer's writing appeared once before on these pages, when he was arguing that grizzly bears should be erad...

King Arthur's Round Table Discovered by Archæologists: It's good they're still looking for it , anyway. Historian John Harrison,...

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...