A little girl explains why her mother is the best of mothers. Via my father, for reasons best known to him.

Phil at Brandywine Books links to a piece on the decline of religious liberty, which warns Christians to ponder the beam in their eye . I s...

" Never make anything simple and efficient if a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful."

Hal Douglas, who narrated a big chunk of all the movie trailers you've ever watched, died recently at the age of 89.  Here he is in a tr...

As it would be played by Freud, Marx, Carnap, and Nietszche.

The New Republic has the real scoop on the effect of Obamacare on the Democrats' recent loss of a special election in Florida.   It was...

Her Kung-fu is pretty good. Interestingly, this is a US written and produced show for Nickelodeon.

This woman is a good mimic.  You have to wait through her impressions of several languages before she gets to UK English and then to America...

For example, the kind of stand-up girls who will confess to dad that you were invited into their bedroom at 2:20 AM.

I suppose I ought to be surprised to find myself in agreement with NPR , but I suppose it can happen now and again. Philosophical progress i...

Inventing a new and universal mental disorder -- 'juvenioa' -- out of whole cloth , psychologist Chris Ferguson writes: Every genera...

It's too bad Rick Perry crashed and burned in the last presidential election cycle, because he's a solid guy.  I enjoyed his intervi...

I'm getting ready for a 5-day, 50 mile hike on the AT early next month. One of the irritating things about the AT authorities is that t...

Over at Cass', I've been arguing that conservatives should pay more attention to the difficulties of the working man. By the same t...

A buried bomb lies within this enjoyable little piece about linguistic drift: Borrowing from other languages can give rise to an entirely u...

I started clicking links at the joke site Grim linked to.

I have some sympathy for the judge in the BG Sinclair case. On the one hand, the general is clearly in the wrong to some degree, and has al...

Since you all enjoyed the last set, here's a similar set of jokes . There's a small amount of overlap, but mostly they are differen...

We're going somewhere interesting with this, I guess. But this is exactly right. Pope Francis told an interviewer last year that the c...

Regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, for example, there is little difference among most Republicans on what to do. All of us believe we s...