Two articles on the origins of life suggest that it is extraterrestrial , and happens in the cold of space .

In a piece on C. S. Lewis , we learn that he once tangled with a very ornery British philosopher named Elizabeth Anscombe. She was a legend...

Headline: "Eminem Terrified As Daughter Begins Dating Man Raised On His Music." Yeah, I bet. But don't read the rest, whic...

This article on Tolkien and his companions is especially excellent . It begins with the Somme, and ends with the unity of truth and beauty....

Justice Ginsburg, dissent from the VRA decision : [T]he Court’s opinion can hardly be described as an exemplar of restrained and moderate de...

A joke making the rounds: Heisenberg and Schrodinger are on a road trip, when a cop pulls them over. The officer walks up and asks if they k...

John Gray writes another assault on a basic idea of our cosmopolitan world, the idea that people are getting better . This is fundamentally...

Not the literal kind, which is a "Registered Provisional Immigrant" as defined under the new comprehensive but incomprehensible Se...

Chinese postal workers think fast and  break the fall of a toddler from an upstairs window.

The Supreme Court rules 5-4 (Roberts, C.J., joined by Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito): The Fifteenth Amendment is not designed to puni...

Police State, part whatever number I'm up to now: Radley Balko has an interesting observation on Police culture: "What Cop T-sh...

This article is right about a whole lot .

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...