So, let's watch the first minute or so of this clip. Now, plainly these kids are a pain in the ass.  The cops have more important th...

When a group of ex-CIA operators offers to help you sort out a life-and-death situation, you might want to consider the offer carefully . ...

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials. It i...

The University of Minnesota has a piece suggesting that Mr. Gingrich the only candidate in the recent debates who has come under no attacks ...

Now this is the kind of speech you want to hear from a democratically-elected leader .  It's a merciless assault on the un-elected tec...

Here are some photos from the forest I wandered today. Vines scale an abandoned piling. A channel of river-worn stones where no ...

From Maggie's Farm , this time-lapse video from the International Space Station, showing the aurora borealis and a lot of lightning. It...

The gentlemen lawyers leading the case against Obamacare have a piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining the matter as they see it.  The...

While I was doing some other research, I came across this video from Smithsonian Magazine.  It's a recording of Confederate veterans in ...

Cleaning out the attic can turn up all sorts of treasures . A MEDIEVAL market town has discovered it owns an original version of Magna Car...

Accountability at 10 Downing street!  Now if only the government could manage to do this for real, and not just as a joke.

Paper Republic attempts to explain a term in common use in China, which is shockingly obscene and yet a term  -- they often won't even ...

I've been reading a bit about an attempt in Mississippi -- defeated in the recent election -- to use the law to establish that the begin...

In less than two months, we shall see the last American military forces leave Iraq.  America's mission there will be a diplomatic one fr...

Happy 236th birthday to the United States Marine Corps . Semper Fidelis:   you always have been.

A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora....

This is the fate of all of us , if we don't square up. Summary from Barclays Capital inst sales: 1) At this point, it seems Italy is n...

The Economist has a good line, at least, in its review of this new book  on physics: Popular physics has enjoyed a new-found regard.  Now...

From most people, I would dismiss this as mere anti-capitalist rhetoric.   From Nassim Nicholas Taleb , it's an idea we ought to conside...

Dr. Mead has a post that I'm sure you've seen elsewhere , on the clash between factions within what he calls the Blue Model. I'...