How parents put up with public schools is completely beyond me.  I would be tearing my hair out.  I hope a lot of parents are getting used ...

Both of my Senators just voted against the NRA . I don't think that's ever happened before. Of course, it was just to open debate...

It's easy.  Just try to ensure affordable food for all with doctrinaire collectivist tools.    Venezuela is flirting with it: During ...

So, it turns out that the Mantis Shrimp is a pretty impressive creature .

Mr. Walker makes an interesting point . Through all her career she was never – so far as I’ve been able to tell – involved in a scandal. The...

So in a completely bizarre series of redirects, I came across this article from 1997 today: http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1997/08/03/...

Well, what isn't now? If anything, it sounds apologetic to me -- on both sides. A worthy start, or something no one should ever da...

The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense, with pride of place to Scientology.

I'm no expert, but this article confirms my husband's and my experience with amateur CPR as practiced locally by our volunteer fire...

I suspect most Americans wouldn't get the reference, but in Amsterdam it's still locally important enough that the folks in the mall...

Sometime take the road by Fort Mountain , and follow it east to the Maysville Saloon . Just past there is a place called Hurricane Shoals, ...

We note with regret the passing of Margret Thatcher , the last of the giants of her age. There remain many lights of that age still with us...

There's an old xkcd cartoon, thus . The new generation of spam that has been flooding into the blog lately is sometimes almost there. ...

These guys continue to charm me.  I've rarely been so happy with a minor investment: We've got our new Solar Pocket Factory buildi...

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...