An interesting index , which allows you to assign how much a given freedom matters to you. If you don't care about freedoms at all, the...

Having just finished a very large undertaking, months or perhaps more than a year in the making, I am rewarding myself with a week or so to ...

Should we think differently about this Goldman-Sachs case than the Snowden case? Both involve a kind of basic disloyalty, a thieving of se...

This is a fascinating account of a stroke that affected a young woman's thalamus.  Don't worry; she seems to have come out pretty w...

Earlier today when I was looking for background materials on gravity waves, I stumbled on a Wiki page listing some prominent unsolved proble...

I completely understand the desperate temptation to buy the blood of Ebola survivors, to get the advantage of their antibodies.  Hospitals ...

That was an amazing game. In the end, it was the Mighty Bulldogs. Certain cousins, aunts, and uncles are just going to have to deal with...

It'll never work!  The infrastructure challenges are insurmountable! . . . OK, maybe they're not so bad, but fracking is evil. We ...

It hasn't been a good month for the Big Bang Theory.  First, a much-ballyhooed interpretation of data that was supposed, in March of thi...

This Weekly Standard article ostensibly is about Neil deGrasse Tyson's dishonesty, but on that subject it's a mere re-hash of a sor...

Common Core remains a mystery, but there's no mystery about how disturbing it is to see two parents arrested and led out of school boar...

A heartfelt plea .

No link to terror groups say the authorities, which is plausible given some definitions of what it means to be "linked to terror group...

Should we be outraged that Apple is making virtually unbreakable encryption a default option on iPhones?  I'm not seeing it.   Allahpund...

Especially for Tex, but also anyone interested in her course on the history of English, some a tale from the Proto-Indo-European .

Some weeks back I posted about a fishy shooting of a black man by cops in a WalMart, which got practically zero coverage or comment.  Every ...

If, like me, you've been wondering how smugglers so easily pass by the US Border Patrol, at last there is video exposing their methods! ...

One of my old Iraq comrades used to be a big fan of a play called "Avenue Q." It was a kind of parody of Sesame Street. This was...

This is a really interesting deployment decision . In a way they're pushing the command down, since currently the ARCENT Deputy Command...

The DSCC has strong words to say about this vicious attack ad from Cory Gardner, the republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Colorado, w...