One minute the tower is standing.  The next, it's rubble and dust.   Richard Fernandez on the hollowing out of societies before the fin...

Maggie's Farm links to a horrified Discovery.com article citing a poll showing 1/4 of Americans don't know that the Earth revolves...

I got it off of Google maps.  Or else from Maggie's Farm, where it depicts Gwynnie's family cabins near the Donner Pass.  There are ...

And while we're on the subject of the place of the American car in the American psyche, here's a terrific Cadillac commercial courte...

At least, not in Tennessee's VW plant.   The WaPo's reporter is pretty unhappy about it, too.  The 53-47 vote was "close...

The comments are uniformly negative on the police. Glenn Reynolds posted this item on his site  and has over 100 comments last I looke...

I guess this is appropriate....given the day. I'm always interested in seeing different culture's takes on other culture's l...

Hey, how'd you vote on that bill to spend tons of money ? On an average day, any C-SPAN viewer would know how senators voted in real tim...

It's hard for us to recognize any Cassandra aside from our own, but hat's off to an NSA "threat predictor" (presumably the...

How about a post on the Medieval Spanish debate about the role and status of women ? The terms of the debate among modern scholars are kind...

As expected, the snow that was melting into slush yesterday froze into a solid sheet of ice overnight. My scouting yesterday led me to beli...

Things are good today. I scouted the roads on foot as far as the state highway, and they're mostly clear after the sun we had today. I...

At Washington, DC’s direction, dozens of groups operating as 501(c)(4)s were flagged for IRS surveillance, including monitoring of the group...

Townhall magazine has some kind words for a Republican governor and a Democratic mayor , who pulled it together pretty well for this ice and...

Sent the neighbors another loaf of bread, because apparently their growing boy eats a lot of it. Power and comms still operative as of now...

Nothing bothersome yet, but they've convinced me that tomorrow is going to be a fun day. May be a few fun days before it's over.

I had very sharp vision in my youth.  In my mid-twenties, I started to get near-sighted and reconciled myself to wearing glasses.  In my for...

The snow today is thick and heavy, the kind of snow that rolls up wonderfully into snowmen or snow-forts. The neighborhood children are off...

Is the least believable part of this National Guard drill that right-wing gun-loving terrorists would stage a biological threat against the ...