I've been treating myself lately to a set of lectures on tape.  At first I stuck with pure audio tapes, because they're so much fa...

Thanks to Dad29's pointer, this feels right to me. I have great wealth—a spear and a sword and the good shield of animal hide, skin...

It is highly likely that, had the President not visited Iowa today, I would never have known that the airport code for Sioux City is SUX .

The FedEx lady brought us a new Hav-a-Hart trap just now in the supermegagigantanormous size.  The regular size worked for the first three...

Just for the record, on the subject of the paper of record .

The Guardian is running a piece suggesting that the improved federal levee system protecting the city of New Orleans may have exacerbated p...

The five-point plan featured in Mr. Romney's acceptance speech tonight has one point I'm fuzzy about (the trade agreements) and four...

There are some competing historical analogies for the position of Democratic leaders today. Dr. Mead and Mr. Sullivan think that Obama is a...

So, just for fun, give your best deciphering of the following sentence. Yes, it's one sentence. The move from a structuralist account i...

Apparently this works with dogs, too.

Not a bad bit of work , and they even got the color right .  It's an amusing story, how Sleipnir came to be born; Njörðr mocks Loki over...

Unless you speak Japanese (and perhaps even if you do), you can just skip to 0:50 on this video , since it's hard to imagine the narrati...

Headline:  "School asks deaf preschooler to change his sign language name ." Why?  Because weapons are forbidden at school.

There's a lot of cursing in this one, even for a Hitler Downfall video. If it is in fact true that an ODA -- that is, a Special Force...

The most disturbing part of this story is the unit the men came from :  4/3 BCT.  It's a relatively new Brigade Combat Team, stood up to...

Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' wants you to know that evolution is a fact, and anyone who dissents is holding us all back . I'm goi...

Not Google Maps to find your way somewhere, but a nice collection of historical maps , available by click.

I was casually reading an article describing the pain of a Ron Paul supporter who doesn't want to throw her vote away writing in her fa...

It was very pleasant not thinking about politics for a few days. However, the good citizen cannot leave his duties for long, nor entrust th...