The judge in A.W.'s case advocates for how he thinks the matter should be settled . THE COURT: –You’ve decided to battle, and he comes...

The ads are already out :  President Obama said at a press conference that "the private sector is doing fine."  Republicans are pl...

...that I am always surprised by how much energy there is in a big white oak hitting the ground.

My husband found me this spectacular shot of the transit. I forgot to mention in my prior post why people went to such trouble to view th...

I can't find a direct link to this video on YouTube, so you just have to click through to the HotAir article , which also has another am...

This clip will never get old. Heh.

"Siri, kill that guy:   Drones might get voice controls ." Once again, Shlock Mercenary is ahead of the curve .

One of my Senators, Saxby Chambliss, has taken a hand in the SWATting business .  I particularly appreciate this part of his letter to Attor...

One of the claims being made about Wisconsin is that it represents a lesson about how money, post Citizens United , is now purchasing electi...

In honor of the Wisconsin recall, a little song by our own Waylon Jennings.  There are some lessons in the analogy.  Once we were all on the...

Wisconsin voters spanked big labor today in its efforts to oust Governor Scott Walker and his lieutenant.  In the 2010 race between the same...

A mysterious source of radiation was captured in tree rings sometime from 774 to 775.  Scientists say it wasn't solar flares or supernov...

James Lileks is not happy with the soda ban in NYC.  He's also a little irritable about people who refer to sodas as "poison."...

So, on the one hand, they did catch the guy . On the other hand, the reporter has a good point.  What happens if the bank robber decides t...

Even rarer than a Diamond Jubilee is a transit of Venus across the face of the Sun, which (weather permitting) we should get a chance to ...

The Queen of England celebrates her Diamond Jubilee this weekend, the first since Queen Victoria's.  That one occasioned Kipling's R...

CUNY has an idea . Touting a move to make its faculty more diverse, CUNY administrators have broken out Jews into a separate minority grou...

Can nation-states really produce scarier malware than unaffiliated geeks?  While the Iranian nuclear program continues to struggle with the ...

Some scholarly articles are unusually rich in detail.  Who knew that a medieval cure for bed-wetting was to feed the offender with ground...