Contingencies in the real world compel my absence for a while. I leave the Hall to my companions, with the understanding that you will hono...

Again, from Maggie's Farm:  We are our own worst enemies in traffic .  Besides telecommuting more, two of the best things we could do to...

Focus on the Family (via Maggie's Farm ) offers what seems like sensible  advice for preparation for success in marriage, with five eas...

Following up on Grim's color test: Obviously both my husband and I have a good deal of color acuity, but his is on a higher plane than...

Since I apparently don't have anything important to say this week, how about another quiz?

...but can you put them into proper order ? It's a very difficult test. Lower scores are better.

This guy has an interesting point, which he takes a long time to reach, about the way in which our society has come to run down the dignity ...

"Aristotle for Bros" is a bad idea. However, like many bad ideas, its time has come .

Last night one of my less-trained dogs (none of them is impressive) went out after dark and declined to come back to my call, preferring ins...

Brevity .

The IRS is in full retreat from the lawsuit filed by "True the Vote" over the IRS's unconscionable obstruction of its tax-exem...

Instapundit points to this article in the New York Times: The Messy-Kitchen, Parking Spot War He describes it as "Liberal Mother Synd...

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...