Is it worse that our culture's faith in parental authority has become so weak that this seemed plausible to someone, or that our faith i...

Moscow tests battlefield robots , armed with machine guns. Now all they need is a device to permit automated nuclear... oh, right . They...

... but only slightly . UPDATE: Oddly enough, they were not the biggest morons in the news today.

...here's Mazzy Star, who can stand good for you no matter what you can do.

If you can. Kris Kristofferson shows the way, following Johnny Cash: but that doesn't mean you can do the same. Devils are hard to...

An entertaining explanation of the dastardly tools of the cholera bug.

In struggling to transliterate some ancient Greek inscriptions, I spent some time today looking for internet explanations of what looks like...

Some advice from a Southerner to all those in the press and various interest groups who are fulminating about white supremacist groups right...

From Andrew Klavan , who draws my grudging attention to the accomplishments of this unappealing statesman: You can’t get more anti-governm...

From an account of a late 17th-century side trip by some English merchants to the ruins of Palmyra (with some paragraph breaks added; they d...

I've been seeing a lot of Back to the Future fans posting silly fashions from the sequel movie, which was set in 2015. Have faith, you...

I wish this audio clip were longer.  A woman explains the sources of a handful of common Southern accents by slipping effortlessly in and o...

...could you nail just by reading the Bible?

While the civic culture in New York shows troubling signs, we might take some comfort from this letter from the chief of the Nashville, TN p...

It's a thoroughgoing response to that Atlantic piece about America being a 'chickenhawk nation,' so I'll just post the co...

New York cops are engaged in an unofficial strike , sending the number of arrests plummeting.  Is mayhem around the corner? Timothy Carney ...

Semi-conductors are materials in which nearly all the electrons are paired off and inert, but a very few electrons are sailing for the New W...

It's something else I've never understood: what is electricity, anyway? I was always told it had something to do with loosely affi...

There was a lot of talk about the 2014 Republican sweep, particularly how it was the largest R majority in the House since 1928.  Michael Ba...

To start with some corrections to my previous post about nanotechnology: First, it was not George Smalley but William Shockley, one of the ...