Popular Mechanics has an article on the History Channel's show, Forged in Fire . History's newest competition show ... challenge...

I recently read Dan Simmons's 2011 dystopian novel, Flashback . From the back cover: Some twenty years from now, the United States...

They say this didn't work out well for the Neaderthals when we started trying it.

From a three-part New Yorker article about sleep disorders: If you sleep six hours a night for twelve days, Adusumilli says—and that’s abou...

Laura, a young woman in Bogota notices a man in a butcher shop, William, who looks so like Jorge, one of her co-workers, that she assumes s...

Going to go ride for a while. I think the Grandfather Games are going on right now. Might be worth stopping in. Back Tuesday or so. He...

I've long advocated being a gentleman . To do so, though, requires that you constitute yourself a defender of your country and it...

How much brutality can you stand before we decide that something must be done? There is a point when we become numb to such behavior, when a...

The pleasure of seeing expectations confounded: young athletes get made up convincingly as geezers, then show up on the basketball court o...

Same band as last night, this time singing about cocaine. I don't care at all about cocaine -- I'm one of the last Americans to ...

There was a famous election in which David Duke ran against a legendarily corrupt politician that produced the slogan, "Vote for the cr...

Oh, my. I assumed the village flag in this HotAir newsclip was for funnsies, but apparently not.

Will the Chinese equivalent of WalMart soon have to start importing cheaper U.S.-made consumer goods? I wouldn't bet on it quite yet, b...

A little piece about the Cumberland river .

We've been talking about the crisis in terms of the English-language commentary on it, and in terms of the clash between German and con...

This story sounds familiar . She told a story about the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Clinton and Pr...

For those of you who (like me) have never closely followed European politics, this WSJ article , which is linked via a Google search and won...

Let's stick with Junior Brown for another day. I liked the last one because of some of the clever word-play. This song doesn't rea...

The Japanese accepted .

From Political Humor : Eric Hines