Soon, things like this won't be a problem anymore . Former president George W. Bush, widely regarded as a model of physical fitness, rec...

The WaPo purchase explained .

I do like insects, mostly.  Just not leafcutter ants and malaria-carrying mosquitos.  Dr. Stephen Hoffman of Rockville, Maryland, has develo...

We try not to use pesticides here at Texan99 Farms, but we draw the line when we get an outbreak of leafcutter ants, which can strip a citru...

More strategies for cratering capital markets:  Venezuela thinks it's a good idea to default on $74 million in interest payments on bon...

ZeroHedge has a  suggestion for swamping the data banks of our surveillance overlords.

Fascinating news on the subject of the famous Oseberg ship. Like Lars Walker, I had always understood it was thought to be a coastal vessel...

Ever since the Supreme Court issued its astoundingly bad decision in Kelo v. City of New London , local governments have been encouraged to ...

Reader AW from LuckyGunner sends the following ad for Blackhawk Tactical goggles , which has an amusing video showing the many 'tactical...

I'm not sure where the affection for the Cathar heresy comes from, but I can't remember the last time I saw an academic paper that ...

The U.S. military has been struggling with its policy on dependent benefits.  On the one hand, any large, complex organization would like to...

The pictures are lovely . One of the sorrows of the war in Syria is watching old and beautiful sites like Krak des Chevaliers being damage...

A lady I know, for whom I have the greatest respect though we often do not agree, sends this video with an approving comment. "My kind...

A post of enduring popularity has been " Social Harmony ," from way back in 2004. I was reading an article the other day, in the l...

Today I'm going to depart from the textbook for a moment, and work out some consequences of what you've seen in the first two parts....

At RealClearPolicy, James v. Delong writes about one of the dangers of letting government get too big: it becomes even more difficult to m...

Today's sending-forth hymn omitted one of its three verses. It is sung to the Ode to Joy . God, who still a sword delivers rather tha...

An interesting article , by way of Assistant Village Idiot's sidebar, about ideas that already have been discovered, but never publicize...

Part I is here, along with the text we're using . We'll begin today with Section 1.10, because I want to talk about logical equival...

September 11, 2001, was a really bad day to get a lethal snakebite in Myanmar and need an air evacuation.  Now there's a new first-aid ...