So, to recap:  We would like to acknowledge your extraordinary work, which has brought untold benefit to countless people.   However, we a...

Major Leggett dropped by in the comments below to direct our attention to this article .  It's really about Jackson and his claim to pro...

Today I went to the "Fall Festival" in a small Georgia town just a few miles away.  What did I find there? 1)  Several vendors ...

Elise has been discussing the polygamy question at length, and has raised a point that really deserves a separate treatment.  The question h...

Photosynthesis converts sunlight into chemical bonds; a fire converts the stored chemical energy into heat and light. Really fast. Other fu...

I am sure that everyone reading this has heard about these 'occupy whatever' protests. I saw the one in Philadelphia (for some reaso...

I thought, if he was going to do it, he'd do it to pass Obamacare. For reasons I can't fathom, the Senate Majority Leader elected ...

I don't usually post so many videos in one day, but this campaign ad is rather amusing. I'd say this is a pretty good representa...

What makes this case outrageous is not merely that the motel owners are accused of no crime.  It is not even that the basis for the case i...

The Italians have the best sports. The website of this group is here ; it promises that this year's reconstruction held to rigorous ...

The Wall Street Journal collected a number of Mr. Jobs's sayings over the last quarter of a century. Here are his thoughts in 1985 abou...

Almost every morning my Bing search engine greets me with a stunning image. This morning it's a cypress swamp in the George L. Smith St...

Hank Williams Junior is socially unacceptable, now? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Country Wrong www.thed...

John Gray undertakes to criticize the study we discussed earlier. The idea that a new world can be constructed through the rational app...

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I see that, while I was gone, a number of "Occupy Wall Street" protests have been going on. This morning I ran across a Daily Cal...

Lars Walker's co-blogger Phil provides us with a story of the true and honest Russia . Gumilyov had—like many of his peers—become enam...

Another summer is gone.  I did not much enjoy this last one, but that is a failing of mine; I should have done better with what I was given....

The great bears are, for reasons best known to scientists, given the adult names normally used for pigs -- boars and sows -- even though the...