Stalling the Keystone XL pipeline may not keep all that Canadian tar-sand oil under the ground after all.

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The European version of our CDC reports on some Ebola outbreaks, and mentions that someone at GlaxSmithKline accidentally dumped 45 liters ...

From Zero Hedge :  Subversive materials for the schoolkids.

PBS wants you to consider suicide.... er, well, end-of-life care short of lifesaving .  We may still yet avoid the Death Panels if we can ge...

Whatever bad things anyone has said about Herodotus -- aye, even Aristotle -- the histories he wrote are among the most interesting things ...

Megan McArdle posted about the California law requiring affirmative consent for sexual encounters. She objected to the strange tone of a J...

ISIS is issuing certificates , good for three months, showing that persons unlucky enough to be caught in their territory are provisionally ...

News from the Pacific Northwest : Two competing measures on the Washington state ballot this fall ask voters to take a stance on expanded b...

U.S. oil producers have begun to export their product for the first time in almost 40 years, and imports are dropping.  (The two don't ...

Samuel Beckett was very clear on the subject of whether he wanted his letters published after his death. Most of them were to a lover, and...

Gwynneth Paltrow explains how the lack of a routine in her life made it unusually hard to hold her marriage together.

Richard Fernandez on paradigm shifts: But Obama’s not without ideas. He’s full of ideas, all of them out of date. All of them from the la...

...because it's apparently over. If this guy had just asked around campus, people would have given him $400. Heck, season he's ha...

Good ride today. Dodged the thunderheads as well as I could, as long as I could, but rode back in it. It's a good idea to stay out of ...

If they're female voters in Kentucky , and they're interested in a functioning economy, it turns out they may want a candidate who...

This is a dialect quiz from a year or so ago.  It places me somewhere between Jackson, Mississippi, and my actual hometown, Houston.  I tri...

Cass was schooling me on the equal protection clause recently and a random, silly question popped into my squirrelly brain. First, the equ...

...of an old discussion, with new discussion .

So there I was, trying to slip an argument in on another thread, when the Big Guy busts me and tells me to put up my own post. Well, clearl...