Always fun to see a horse come from behind, especially when the jockey is a long-shot youngster.  For most of this clip, I'll Have Anoth...

The full moon will be will be about 221,802 miles from Earth tonight, which is about 15,300 miles (roughly 7%) closer than average, and the...

The claim here is that the Sears Catalog was midwife to the blues . You know what?  Tell me what you think of the argument.  Let's tak...

Jonah Goldberg's new book is not of any more interest to me than was his last book, but I saw via Instapundit that he had posted an exce...

Now here's a video that's probably worth your time .  It's an adaptation of the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's 9th ...

H/t Ace .  Naturally I can't find confirmation of any of these quotations, but I did find another unprovable one:  Foreign Minister J...

Wow . Give the man credit:  he's standing up for cradle-to-grave government support, at least for women.  The focus on how women benef...

There seems to be a lot of talk today about the President's admission that the girlfriend in one of his autobiographies is a "comp...

So, there's this study that says that atheists are more motivated by compassion than believers .  Now, if you are like me, you read this...

I have to say I find this really, really funny . Some black bloc man bigger than me with bandana tried to take my camera from me violently...

The problem with federalism is that sometimes the states run experiments whose results are hard to discount.  This week has seen a flood of ...

A healthcare blog makes the tongue-in-cheek suggestion that we treat legal fees like medical costs: It makes one think: If the lawyers ar...

Today we enter the Cathedral of May, that month when the fullest beauty of spring gives way to the richness of summer. Though the whit...

Pictured: a wild-eyed savage delighting in the destruction of the civilization of the West; and a Cherokee warrior, ca. 1836 AceOfSp...

"No, I don't want a bloody mary with pickled brussels sprouts and beets.  I'm not interested in octopus salad with pearl onions...

So Dan Rather has a report today -- I had thought he was retired -- on the horror of how our grandparents used to deal with unwanted pregnan...

Oh, my.   Besen of MSNBC shares some alarming intelligence with  The New York Daily News : Romney has actually become the most far-right m...

Miss Manners, as usual, has fine advice for avoiding rude, unpleasant conversational gambits without resorting oneself to rudeness or unplea...

Although of course we all know Tocqueville, I had not been aware of the political backstory to his famous American tour. The Revolution ...

I went into the kitchen a while ago, and poking around in the freezer I found a container of ice cream that I didn't know we had.  It...