The people's paradise of Venezuela continues to follow the script with eerie faithfulness.  Control "abusive" prices, watch sh...

It's all math , maybe. Just like he thought.

The problem with modernism, in art, is that it's too hard : Beckett wrote “unenjoyable” books, says Martin Amis. Paulo Coelho believes J...

We give the man a hard time, but Ice-T had something to say even twenty years ago.

Sarah Hoyt writes on a familiar problem . The title of the article sounds like she might be taklig She manages to articulate something that...

From a 1922 Spanish-English dictionary being processed now at Project Gutenberg.  How impoverished English is, to lack a verb for the act of...

The summer is dying in front of our eyes.  Better times, friends.  Better times are coming.

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...