I once saw a line: "Weather's here. Wish you were beautiful." I always think of it on the first day that the spring weather...

Now I understand why we can't be allowed to have guns. They know what they would do if they had them . The mayor of Marcus Hook was cha...

I thought Grim would appreciate this excerpt from a book I'm helping proofread at Project Gutenberg ( The Doctor's Christmas Eve , b...

The Romans are going home . Long ago, when I was young lad in the service, I heard that the Germans had a nick name for the American troop...

The FAA has established a "no fly zone" over the recent Arkansas oil spill .

It's a real place, in Nevada, the Green Fly Geyser , a happy mistake: Located on a gated parcel of private property within the mill...

That's a bold claim, but it starts here . The podcasts seem to be bite-sized, and popularly-aimed, so that it should be accessible to a...

From Maggie's Farm , a lot of useful tricks , like how to make the room stop spinning, and how to lessen the pain of toothache.

DL Sly sends a little something she thought I'd like , which I think some of you might like as well.

Out in Arizona, bipartisan support destroyed a bill aimed at training the police to respect 1st Amendment rights of free expression and fre...

It may well be that going to graduate school is a bad investment just now, but if you are interested in it, it turns out that philosophy is ...

Or maybe I'm just befuddled.  North Korea apparently has just called us a " boiled pumpkin ." Yeah, and yer another.

Or else our ally, as Odysseus was. The thing I love about this article is that it provides an easy link to the particular piece of music b...

Two weeks' pickings from Rocket Science , where I'm catching up after a long period indulging myself over at Project Gutenberg, and ...

Then said he to Galahad: Son, wottest thou what I hold betwixt my hands? Nay, said he, but if ye will tell me. This is, said he, the holy...

Imagine if African American men and boys were committing mass shootings month after month, year after year. Articles and interviews would fl...

Just how bad is Alaska? Well, like everything, women are hardest hit . (Probably minorities too, but the article doesn't treat that.) ...

A striking quote in a section of the Philosophy of Right . We should desire to have in the state nothing except what is an expression of rat...

Here's a fellow who wants you to know that your reading choices really ought to align with your fashion choices . Why do you dress the w...

Some satisfying suggestions from Coyote Blog.  H/t Popehat , which suggests that the trick to dealing with a butthead in an organization is...