One of my husband's war-gaming buddies provided him with this link.  An unusually impenetrable lecture on missile guidance, or an explan...

  And then the local Oktoberfest (of which my photos have been seized by the NSA -- or, beer prevented me from properly saving. Whichever...

I think this is a really neat paper , a Master's Thesis from Canada.  It shines light on two very different debates:  a debate within th...

London now features a building with a curved glass wall that acts as a solar lens strong enough to melt plastic on parked cars.

Bookworm is right:  I didn't even get past the titles before I laughed out loud: [A] friend of mine directed me to a site called The D...

I will be gone for a few days, escorting some friends from foreign lands around the Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge. They wanted to see ...

St. Monica was the mother of St. Augustine. It is impossible to think seriously of Christianity as we know it today without dealing with Au...

XKCD illustrates a point we talked about recently.

Today I witnessed a confrontation between two characters so despicable that I was sorry to have to take sides, mentally though in no way pra...

Megan McArdle asks a question I am singularly unqualified to answer , as with one exception I don't watch television (and I watch it onl...

Grim and Cass have brought up some partial solutions, or at least ideas of places to look, and I ran across another today. In the comments...

Plato discussed the idea that knowledge is justified true belief (JTB), and historically a lot of philosophers have accepted this definitio...

I am doing some important things today, just not here . UPDATE: Ok, now we're really finished for the day .

I'm officially 80% German, according to the very lustig "how German am I" test from Hipstery.com. The average is just 65%. I’m...

Here's an image I'm sure I'll have use for from time to time.

Maps that sort things in an unusual way.

Another story from Georgia, one well worth reading, is the story of Antoinette Tuff . She stopped a school shooting in DeKalb County the ot...

Allahpundit says , "This guy’s either going to be president, the next Jim Carrey, or institutionalized." Or else he'll jus...