Humanity reaches interstellar space .

Tonight was a good night for the kind of small-town high-school football around which so much of American culture is built.  The closest sma...

What better reason to clean things up than guests arriving in great numbers over the next few weeks?  We've spraywashed the outside of t...

This sounds fantastic! We could have another 'Greatest Generation'! Or, you know, part of one, anyway.

Once strong, from solid Camelot he came Glory with him, Geraint, Whose sword tamed the wild. Fabled the fortune he won, Fame, and a wif...

Black NRA from Sarah Silverman Let's have a short history lesson on the origin of the National Rifle Association, courtesy of W...

As you know if you've been watching the last week with an eye for it, Congressman Doug Collins is sounding like a pretty serious "N...

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...