Via some sort of link I was following from (probably) Maggie's Farm (which I don't want to omit, in light of discouraging recent st...

Faced with food price inflation, Panama's new president has a brainstorm :  "I know!  Let's try price controls!"  Because ...

Every movie trailer you've ever seen.

Again . Also, apparently Donald Rumsfeld is not an alien lizard.

No matter how it's taught, it's still too hard .

I didn't write about the woman who was arrested for letting her kid play alone in the park because the story was too exasperating.  Now...

On the news I saw the extremists replaced the cross on our church in Mosul with the black flag of the Islamic State. They are doing a ca...

Later, when Beowulf’s corpse burns on the funeral pyre, it doesn’t gently disappear. He is cooked until the “ banhus gebrocen ” —the bonehou...

From Protein Wisdom : We thought the Cold War was over, but Hillary’s reset button has rekindled that. Turns out Obama’s policies and att...

Merit-based New York high schools are vilified for providing an escape route for poor, hard-working immigrants of the wrong color: There ...

Via Protein Wisdom by way of Maggie's Farm , a former leftist describes a change of heart : Peace Corps did not focus on the "sm...

The young woman who needed the courts to step in and regulate her relationship with her parents now needs the courts to step in and regulat...

This is a fantastic piece by Henry Rollins , all the more amazing when you realize that the adviser who saved him and made him whole would t...

I can't say anyone's ever zip-tied me, but this looks like a handy guide for addressing that contingency.

A young Jew travels to Israel on a trip sponsored by a group called Birthright Israel. While there, for reasons that are not hard to unders...

The University of Wisconsin pushes distributional equity in grades.  Seems fair enough.  Why should the smart kids get the good grades?  Th...

A quiz featuring historic Anglo-Saxon riddles , just the kind Tolkien loved. Unfortunately the quiz is multiple-choice, which makes it far...

Speaking of sanity breaking out in unexpected places, the D.C. Court of Appeals just struck down the Obamacare subsidies in states that did...

The Kurds are on track to become the second sane culture in the Middle East.