I'm no spring chicken or cutting-edge technology adapter, but I seem like one next to my mother-in-law, who lacks a working computer or ...

My Holy Week reading has included that old standby, "The Screwtape Letters."  The senior tempter Screwtape explains to his feckles...

A thousand years ago, Brian Boru died at the Battle of Clontarf . For a long time Irish historians taught Clontarf as the victory by which ...

Children are gifts from God , but this time it appears that the inability of Congress to craft a budget may have had some influence.

Teenager. Secret talisman. Giant robot. Sidekicks. Villans. Pretty teenage girl to rescue. More giant robots. You can never have e...

It would take a heart of stone not to chuckle at the White House's recent squirming over the results of having "disparate impact...

It does seem like the Right spends a lot of time worrying about whether the individual involved in the case is really the right kind of guy,...

Don't you folks ever worry that if you keep calling people racists and white supremacists often enough, the words will lose their sting...

I'm not often on the fence, but I can't bring much order to my thoughts about Cliven Bundy's Nevada standoff with the feds. He...

The Census Bureau announces that, by sheer coincidence , its household survey questions about health insurance status will be so radically c...

I've been in the bleak north for a good part of a week, and made the return crossing of the Mason-Dixon line last night. I will be in ...

Terrific animation of the operations of a cell at the individual protein level. There's an ad at the beginning, but you can skip it aft...

TOS, no less. Steady. As. She. Goes. How many episodes do you recognize? Your geek cred depends on it!

I see that Mozilla fired its first black CEO this week, because he was against gay marriage six years ago. At least, I assume he was black...

I got 14 of these questions wrong (out of 50), and in half of those cases I didn't even get the sex of the poet right.  Wouldn't yo...

I have returned from the Wild. A brief rest, and then I will be gone again -- this time, by motorcycle, as far as Massachusetts. I should...

The Bing cover page picture today is of something called the "Falkirk Wheel," which is a rotating boat-lift lock that connects tw...

The US is looking to give up control of the Internet to an international consortium of dubious provenance and more dubious imperatives. The...

I will be gone for several days, trying out your wonderful suggestions for trail food. I have Boar's Head sausage and hard cheese, wal...