Today's xkcd : It happens this is also the answer to the problem posed in this article on the stagnation of culture : Rewind any o...

It's the season of Handel, the missus and I are going to see one of his operas this weekend, it's also close to Hannukah, and I don...

A good song of Scotland: From the Baltimore Consort , an amazing group that I have somehow never managed to arrange to see live.  They...

From Medievalists.net:   "Archaeologists uncover early Christian community in Norway."

The Pennsylvania liquor board has pulled an anti-rape ad that it developed, over charges that the ad consists in blaming the victim.  Here...

So I got this video via email from the campaign. It's certainly true that she doesn't waver.  I can't argue against that pro...

Before the battle of Stirling Bridge, William Wallace watched from hiding on a hilltop as the English force began to cross the river below. ...

Following on T99's post of lounge-singing in Morocco, here's a young lady doing it the American way.

An Islamic cleric residing in Europe said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers , in order to avoid any “sexual thoughts.”...

Or, a journalist discovers Geoffroi de Charny . De Charny also suggested what the knights should do to resist the stress factors. He said...

This is a banner day for interesting articles.  Dr. Mead has one in which he points out that both President Obama and Mr. Gingrich have decl...

Why not celebrate by refusing to send a care package to deployed soldiers ?

That is the title of Theodore Dalrymple's latest piece, which he describes as a postmortem on the British riots. He begins by denying th...

I read an interesting headline at ABC News this morning: " Rick Perry Says Human Rights for Gays ‘Not in America’s Interests’." ...

Commentary writes : Because he is black, his opinions about race are controversial. If he were white, they probably would be unpublishabl...

Politico says that "Nervous Mitt fans" are urging their candidate to "hit Newt harder."   One of the strengths of the Gi...

According to This Ain't Hell , Michael Yon's given what looks like, but in fact is not, an interesting dilemma: It could happen tomo...

Wistful childhood memories .

This may be old hat to those of you with rugrats in the house. You can make a non-Newtonian fluid with a starch suspension, such as a mixt...

You might think that T99's post, in which we learned about the Fed 'servicing' the needs of the banks, represents the low point ...