I'm enjoying Kevin D. Williamson's new book, " The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome ," a proposition from the ...

Via DL Sly, a gaffe . That's what we call this kind of thing these days. But it's not a gaffe, not really. It's a massive phi...

Another from Maggie's Farm: Wow, sugar policy is hard . I think it's about supporting domestic sugar growers so they can make sure...

Two new works on Medieval sexuality have been brought to my attention in recent days. I'm going to bring them to yours, because they ex...

De hot come go, come go. H/t Maggie's Farm.

Apparently our President doesn't approve of Catholic education . Well, American public schools produced the Lightworker. What have Cat...

From Dr. Joy Bliss at Maggie's Farm , about sexual harassment panic in the military: The PC attitude seems to be to overstimulate chil...

So let it be recorded in the Book of the Day.

Ted Cruz recently asked , "Anyone know if President Obama intends to perform background checks on the Syrian rebels before providing th...

Mental pretzels .  What do you do when the facts contradict your models? (1)  Create new models that find hypothetical facts hiding in the...

This post isn't about discrete drunkenness (like Ron White's complaint when he was accused of public drunkenness:  "I didn'...

Once in a while, it's good to wash your boots in the sea.  Apparently, also your dog.

Samuel Walter, the Texas Ranger who did more than anyone else to make the Colt revolver synonymous with Texas and the Wild West, supposedly ...

Unless that would be too misleading .

In Rocket Science piece, Ed Yong explores the state of research on limb regeneration.  It seems that mammals are much worse at this than am...

Flying Tigers!   The P-40 Warhawk remains a highly iconic image. Another iconic image, more recent.  This one is from the n...

Popehat has a more thoughtful discussion of the lung transplant waiting list controversy than I've seen anywhere else--not so much the ...

This is what I like to see.  A Hackensack landowner's dispute with a local property board over a stinky eminent-domain gambit not only ...

I've been thinking more about the poo-print condo and why I find the prospect of living there so horrifying.  It's not so much that ...