There are days when The Onion lives up to its fake tagline.

From Theodore Dalrymple, via Maggie's Farm , a quotation from Golden Harvest:  Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust by Jan Tomasz G...

Grim has very generously offered to let me put a question before the Hall, and I consider it a great honor that he has extended to me.  In s...

A company based out of Boston has developed cups that change color if date-rape drugs are introduced to their contents. It's sad that ...

A friend who adopted a Russian girl about five years ago posts a quotation from Glenn Styffe:  ‎"I used to wonder if I was ready to be ...

...at least, for North Korea . North Korea defied the UN again to launch this rocket, an action proscribed by a sheaf of UN resolutions that...

Instapundit mentions a band I always liked, for reasons that are hard to lay out. They have a stripped-down sound most of the time. I thin...

We'll skip over the first part of this article , which starts with the Titanic, ground that Cassandra has more than adequately covered a...

This will be an interesting episode . Dr. Althouse wonders if the unions know something about authority's willingness to enforce the l...

This gentleman is a professor of philosophy at Boston College. I find his argument flawed on two points, but I want to save laying out ...

The ladder is eight feet tall, as is the top of the window frame.  I think this tree is about eleven feet tall:  twice my height.  My husb...

I have begun reading " Complications " by Atul Gawande, a discourse on the fear and confusion inherent in learning to practice med...

I remember this band from when they were new. An interview with them asked after their main sources of inspiration, and the one I remember ...

From Ace, a link to a Telegraph article claiming that new standards applicable to most American states will require 70% of the public schoo...

If you've seen the old John Wayne / John Ford movie Donovan's Reef , the lyrics are given "the monkeys have no tails in Zambo...

The Pearl Harbor surprise attack occurred 71 years ago today.  It is an example of the kind of intelligence failure we would most like to be...

There was a lot of rain on the way up to Vogel State Park today, so that by the time I finished the ride up on the motorcycle I was complet...