Our esteemed host emailed me to say that his wife is home from the hospital and recovering nicely, though he's still much occupied carin...

Whoops, not this week.  You guessed it:  during the shutdown, you won't be allowed to go into some federally controlled waters to fish....

Few subjects stir us to such feats of intellectual gymnastics as explaining how our stereotypes aren't really stereotypes.   This articl...

Via Maggie's Farm, a sober look at what it would really take to live as a modern hunter and gatherer long-term--not just for a few days...

Taranto is funny when he stays away from gender politics.  Well, he's funny then, too, but in a different way.    Here he is on the Gre...

No, I'm not referring to Harry Reid's spectactularly tone-deaf "Why would we want to do that?" response to a question abou...

Cassandra has helpful statistics at her place about the last 17 shutdowns. The first 16 didn't attract that much media attention. Thr...

I think this privately-funded director of volunteers at a "Williamsburg-style" farm (Claude Moore Colonial Farm) has burned her br...

I tried out the healthcare.org site and never managed to log in or raise anyone on "Live Chat," but I did get through on the telep...

Maybe for a long time .

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...