We're all thinking about Ohio this weekend, so why not a blues piece that starts out there? But I-75 is a long road, from Canada to the...

Apparently we have some brethren in the frozen north . A couple of hours before the storm reached peak strength and before we lost power, my...

Mr. Silver has been the focus of a lot of attention lately, but mostly it has come from people who don't understand his model or probabi...

A German Neo-Nazi went to Afghanistan to train and fight with the Taliban. At last, he had to give it up and come home, saying he made a bi...

From Rocket Science, an article about a "self-healing"concrete that uses limestone-secreting bacteria activated by water that see...

Georgia did a version of this some years ago, but apparently Kentucky has come up with a twist: ordering regulatory agencies to consider h...

Went over to the county seat today, since I was out that way on other business, and took part in early voting. The line was surprisingly lo...

A good article on RedState on polling methodology, with comparisons to modeling of climate, housing markets, and baseball: Consider an ar...

The original headline on this piece from Staten Island was "We're going to die." Clearly the government's efforts here a...

Last week I got a letter from the bank saying that I owed them $73 for rental on a safety deposit box that my wife apparently took out while...

My husband suggests that, if this electoral map from Unskewed Polls is even close, David Axelrod will be obligated to get a full body wax. ...

No, not about Benghazi.  I've about given up hope on that one.  What I want to know is whether Senator Menendez  (D-N.J., appointed to f...

One of the first things the emergency response corps does here in implementing a mandatory evacuation is cut off the power, water, and gas t...

I approve the trend in pumpkin carving .

Dr. Mead is moved by the storm to musings of the kind that occupy my mind so very often. He has written a good piece, just the sort of refl...

Massive fires in Queens: And -- is that thing really a shark? This substation explosion really would have gotten my attention.  I c...

Zero Hedge has many pictures, including this shot of Ground Zero.  The tunnels are filling up.

Nothing tonight, save a prayer for those under the storm. First among those for each of us is the one most beloved who lies under that stor...