Good luck with this latest grand jury decision . I'll be out of the country for about two weeks. Let me know how it turns out.

So the Pope got some good press today . Religious leaders from a half-dozen faiths have signed on to a new Vatican initiative to end modern-...

Paterson , N.J., a city of about 150,000 people, had exactly 19 high school students this year who managed to break a 1500 score on the 240...

D29 writes to say that he likes this version of the chant more than the one I posted. It does have a substantially different feeling! S...

The old world . The new world . Well, it was new two hundred years ago. At that time we thought it was going to disrupt these kinds of eli...

I've been enjoying a Great Courses lecture in my car lately, a highly popularized explanation of special and general relativity with onl...

(H/t: D29 ).

Now that just shouldn't have happened . But it did, in overtime. Congratulations to the victor.

This spoon adjusts instantly to cancel out tremors.

I realize that for some the Deep South is eternally guilty as somehow the source of all racism, radiating it outwards perhaps by its poisono...

As my husband says, time to sit back and watch both sides destroy each other.  This is not a link about Sunnis vs. Shia, but about two arms ...

My husband found this, but doesn't remember where, so apologies to the source:

In order of the greatest in-state discrepancy in incarceration rates by state:

No holiday travel for me this year, thanks to... whatever you call "Scrooges" at Thanksgiving time. But at least I'll be able...

Our neighbor's niece put together a playlist for her to drive home by last week, with a Thanksgiving theme. The first number: Danke sc...

When I saw the headline, I totally assumed they meant like the Gettysburg address . The only reason I clicked through was to see what he h...

Our President has admonished us that "Communities of color aren’t just making these problems up." I never thought they were. On...

The prosecutor took a long time about getting to what he surely knew was the only thing anyone cared to hear him say. Much of that time was...

Still, it's really surprising . In the past five years, more Utahns have been killed by police than by gang members. Or drug dealers. ...