Via the Borderline Boys , a little film: My grandfather was a welder who ran a service station for long-haul truckers.  One of them made...

Do grocery stores in your area carry fresh or frozen ducks in the meat department?  None of them in my little town does any more.  I'm e...

Grim writes an interesting post with quotes from Marx and Heinlein . I want to add something about that, related also to my last post . If...

A few posts below, Grim discusses a foolish Foreign Policy article that attempts to discredit ideas linking IQ to wealth - the title, so pr...

My very elderly aunt, who has been bed-bound since she broke her hip last summer, has at long last been released from her suffering.  The fa...

A blog called "Colorlines" has a story with a  headline that is not supported by the story itself:  "Even Gun Enthusiasts ar...

"In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, soc...

Now, you may be asking why an  unassisted triple play  is a big deal.  Take a look at the conditions, and give the boy some credit.  That...

The title of the article is "Insight: Afghan women fade from White House focus as exit nears." Now that is an insight:  and don...

...what kind of low-rent opposition researchers do Republicans employ?  Mitt Romney ran a hotly contested campaign against John McCain in 20...

Foreign Policy magazine has an interesting follow-up to the Derbyshire story, which becomes interesting once the author has finished clearin...

Dawsonville Pool Room seized by tax agents , apparently in spite of the fact that the owner was not at fault in owing the taxes, and was in ...

Sing this xkcd to the tune of "Modern Major General." I'm guessing xkcd is not today fielding thousands of furious objectio...

Sippican goes off on stupid house trends.  He wouldn't approve of some things about our house, but I'm right there with him on othe...

Guess it's a good night for the TEA Party, who staked a lot on beating the Senate's longest-serving Republican... and beat him .  Th...

Massachusetts performs a valuable service as a laboratory for nutso social experiments, right up there with California.  Its newest contribu...

This first one is by Richard the Lionheart, composed during his imprisonment while Duke Leopold of Austria was seeking ransom for him.  Leop...

The defendants in the KSM mass-murder terrorist trial are worried, according to their lawyer , that they will be unable to focus on the defe...

Once upon a time Atlanta's mayor, Andrew Young , explained why the Mondale presidential campaign was not going very well .  It was becau...

I enjoyed this short article about tips for managing an introverted nature, especially the spirited discussion in the comments section fr...