I don't think I've ever heard wind like tonight . The wind was on the withered heath, but in the forest stirred no leaf: there sha...

A piece from last year by Onion . For some reason, it's an evergreen.

The author is skeptical, but I think these little hospital robots sound great.

From Rocket Science , news of a contact lens that activates a magnifying lens at the blink of an eye.  It's still experimental and can b...

Maggie Gallagher has a good piece with a large number of examples of people punished for expressing ordinary religious opinions. Some pe...

Headline: Green County:”Nature Rights” or Secession!

A friend at church sent me this link to an odd brass band concert .  Excellent stuff. If my church wanted to do some less traditional musi...

A corporate liability lawyer wonders what could possibly go wrong with Target's plan to sell 50 Shades of Gray sex toys: “Let me get t...

On the absurdity of the current "request" before Congress. To quote a 1944 speech by the famous judge Learned Hand, we “rest our ...

Good point . I really don't understand how this happened, but I want somebody's backside in a sling. Unfortunately that's ...

Citizens' militia, north Dallas .

A Saudi historian explains why women can't drive. You'll probably want to check out early, but you really should stay to hear hi...

Hicks described himself as an “anti-theist,” is aggressively opposed to religiosity of all kinds and may have taken his hatred out on these...

Eric Blair has said for years that citizen movements to reign in the Federal government weren't the real marker to watch for: the marke...

Austin Bay writes : [For Islamic radicals hearing President Obama] "The Crusades" are a premier victim frame tale. Their cultural...

A beautiful virtual tour of Ely Cathedral . The fires of the Great Army That was made of iron men, Whose lights of sacrilege and scorn ...

The author , it turns out, has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell. You think it’s exciting to play with blindfolds and cute little commercia...

Slate is hopping mad about Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's new order directing probate court judges not to issue gay marriage license...

A Western country does not belong in the Middle East and the inclination of the other peoples of the region to oppose such a state is instin...

Um, for ISIS? Becoming Mulan? Female Western Migrants­ to­ ISIS Carolyn Hoyle, Alexandra Bradford and Ross Frenett, January 2015 Launchi...