And while they were all standing round them , Merlin came up to them and said, "Now try your forces, young men, and see whether streng...

It's a sad thing when you don't get much attention at your own funeral . Someone needs to tell Barack Obama—it must get particularly...

I remember catching this duet on TV about 35 years ago.  It wasn't two guys I expected to see singing together.  The video was recorded ...

I never get tired of these.  This is what crowds are for. Synchronized dancing in the school-of-fish style makes me happy, too.

Today would be a good day to spend $2.99 and read Heinlein's short story " The Year of the Jackpot, " about a statistician who...

Locally the kids got out of school today, not to return until the end of the holiday season. That means that we are within the holiday time...

We watched the old Gene Kelly film, set in the Scottish Highlands in a mysterious vanishing village. It's based on an old fairy tale...

From a column drawing contrasts and parallels between ancient and modern thought: was thinking of the class strife in Sallust’s Conspiracy ...

Megan McArdle opposes practically every policy that's being proposed to "prevent another Newtown," quoting Dr. Johnson: How...

Is this man teaching his son the right thing?

My niece's dog, who doesn't normally have black foxlike points on her nose or paws.  She looks pleased with herself, doesn't s...

Up the Cavaliers , and down with Roundheads! A piece from the History Channel on the subject of Christmas: An Outlaw Christmas In the earl...

Someone brought cookies to church today that looked exactly like the picture on the right, though I actually got it from the Net.  I'd...

In the comments to the previous post on the subject, Douglas asked me to take on a couple of objections he had seen that he didn't know...

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 ...