Obamacare can't "fail," because it was never designed to work in the first place. The only problem is that they didn't ...

“If you don’t have time to do it right, will you have time to do it over?”   Good Robot Chicken link .

"I did not read the instructions, because I am a man."  This Amazon product review page is worth a read.  Many customers have bee...

Jonah Goldberg gives it a try: Barack Obama, who holds a patent on a device that hurls aides and friends under a bus from great distances,...

Tools : When Virginia's Fauquier County cited farmer Martha Boneta last year for hosting a birthday party for eight 10-year-old girls ...

Tom sends a link to a page devoted to the China Marines . It's a chapter of the Corps' history that few know about, but a very inte...

Over at VC, Elise and I began a discussion late in the comments to a post that probably deserves to be considered independently. Elise ask...

Can't resist those quizzes .  Psychically, my husband belongs in Montana and I in Colorado, but neither of us can tolerate the cold.  I ...

Speaking of ways to achieve the necessary changes in Congress and the White House, such as ballot security, I enjoyed this comment on a foru...

Things I did not know about opossums : 1. Natural immunity .  Opossums are mostly immune to rabies, and in fact, they are eight times less...

For you IT types. Go here for the whole thing, which is supposed to be set to a tune I'm not familiar with, "Leslie Fish": ...

When the president said, "If you like your coverage, you can keep it," what he really meant was, "If we like your coverage,...

My linguistics reading of late is alerting me to survivals of archaic forms in popular culture.  The genius of Shakespeare and the King Jame...

I'm moving into Aristotle's Physics and it depends heavily on his theories of causality, so I thought I'd start with Andrea Falc...

Some great nature shots at this Atlantic website, but the last one is truly amazing.

From the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica entry on "Turkey" (the bird kind).   You can't find genteel trashtalk like this any mor...

A friend of mine sent me this picture , which I found rather surprising. I don't think it's a double standard, so much as their jus...

The moon is made of green cheese. Therefore, either it is raining in Ecuador now or it is not. In our earlier discussions of logic , the ...

Problem 2 Each new term in the Fibonacci sequence is generated by adding the previous two terms. By starting with 1 and 2, the first 10 t...

To the contrary,  Richard Fernandez argues that they're the only ones looking forward: The elite can only continue to sustain itself ...