A friend of mine with environmentalist leanings directed me to this site tonight. It's opposed to Palm Oil manufacture. It begins: Bo...

The garish similarities between Look ’s 1960 piece and Esquire ’s 2013 profile reveal a disheartening lack of progress in between. Male writ...

A collection of Firefly Chinese curses , along with partial pronunciation guides. (I say partial because they don't give you the tones...

I have long suspected a link of this type , given how quickly social attitudes have been changing on this point. The authors of the study c...

One thing that isn't clear to me is why progressives are eager to have the government assume more responsibility for our lives. We shou...

...At least it could be a competent police state. And as Glenn Reynolds notes: "An armed civilian who made this mistake would be trie...

Bookworm Room has an entertaining post about how differently the Reformation, and everything else in Western History, might have turned out...

WordRake generates an entertaining periodic email warning against legalese tomfoolery.  Today's contribution: Two Ways to Tell a Judg...

For those of you who may have followed our recent debate on economics all the way to the end, here is a Ph.D. in economics whose plan to sa...

In the War of the Rebellion, better but erroneously known as the Civil War, Confederate forces famously had less access to industrial goods....

For a while now, I've had a theory that cross-species emotional bonds somehow relates to predatory instincts in mammals. We bond with c...

The New York Times reports that boys get worse grades exclusively because teachers are prejudiced against troublemakers . No previous study...

All of you know my opinion of psychology, and thus must be girding yourselves up for the mockery I am likely to bestow on this article by Pe...

I understand there was a Mongolian herder once, a century or two ago, who was less interested in football than myself, but otherwise I think...

Leon Panetta complains that the " political knives " are out to discredit Chuck Hagel as nominee for Secretary of Defense.  He wou...

Assistant Village Idiot posted a link to this very interesting interactive map and timeline of human worldwide migration as suggested by mi...

“In providing mail service across the country, the Postal Service attempts to work within local and state laws and regulations, when feasibl...

Instapundit points to this item out of New York. An application of the new gun control law just recently passed.  Keep telling yourself i...

Grim has been arguing with me lately about how wages work, what they reflect, and how they should be set.  We even discussed the possibility...

Outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responds to criticism on Benghazi . There are some people in politics and in the press who can...