An enterprising author/nerd went through Netflix's exhaustive survey of its customers' fine-grained movie genre preferences, which ...

The Chosun Ilbo provides an interesting answer : plus or minus 80% capitalist, in the sense of black market. The government-dominated sec...

This is an exceptional parody from Scrappleface.

I generally find Mickey Kaus to be a keen observer especially of politics, so I am somewhat alarmed to find that this post he endorsed so f...

Wyoming and Texas probably are using unfair competitive practices.

Dr. Althouse cites a subject of interest to that genuine philosopher Bertrand Russell, which she follows him in calling "Companionate M...

A professor who teaches constitutional law courses at the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice penned a Christ...

Paleofuture offers a map of an America where all the proposed state secession movements had succeeded . Probably the easiest way to enjoy ...

The Manitoba Museum is reporting Winnipeg's temperatures on Tuesday were actually as cold as the surface of Mars . According to the Cu...

Via Rhymes with Cars and Girls , an interesting article and comments about the "Prideful Worker" effect; i.e. , the worker who...

That one is particularly beautiful. A good song to start the night. Of course, for many this will be the last night of Christmas celebr...

Tom Coburn in the WSJ : The culture that Mr. Obama campaigned against, the old kind of politics, teaches politicians that repetition and ...

This Washington Post article is, for the Post, a fairly nonpartisan look at the competition between red and blue states that are pursuing d...

Schlock Mercenary creator Howard Tayler writes a good review of 47 Ronin . The movie poster is largely misleading. In fact, it wasn't...

... as delivered by a self-declared "Southern Lady," against "White Trash." I was suspicious at first, I have to admit...

If you've been around here a while, you know the story about St. Stephen's Day. I won't bore you with it again. It's a gra...

The peace of the Hall to all people of good will. Merry Christmas to you all.

If you didn't see it elsewhere , here is an argument from an astronomer that the Star of Bethlehem may have been Jupiter. It's fas...