These are posts from "Not Exactly Rocket Science," by the way. In The Guardian, the author of the XKCD comic strip interviews ...

That's the etymology of "encyclopedia."  The Atlantic is running an article about the habit of creating these works, starting...

Republicans are in dismay over the primary. S. E. Cupp apparently thinks they ought to throw the election to keep Trump out of the White H...

Was able to see these ladies last night in one of their last concerts. (They are retiring). At least they made a lot of recordings.

He's a man of more than one talent .

This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days ...

DHS whistleblower says that the State Department crushed his investigation and destroyed database materials that could have stopped the Berd...

Even if we're not talking about refugees or the structure of Islam, the biggest part of the problem remains. Why aren't we asking w...

The New York Times asks the question as part of their regular poll with CBS, having just run a front-page editorial to fulminate on the su...

Clinton receives some negative feedback from 'Muslim advocacy organizations.' “We appreciate that you forcefully condemned the prop...

In 1960, at the height of the Cold War, Nobel Prize-winning American economist Thomas Schelling [5] introduced the world to his “theory of s...

Physics makes heavy use of math , and that means that it inherits some of math's fundamental problems. In 1931, Austrian-born mathematic...

According to a YouGov poll, even Democrats are more than half again as likely to dislike Islam . Only 17% have a positive view (~2% are the...

Not ready for Christmas music yet, but hearing it at every place you go? Just memorize a few of these , and you can sing along until Advent...

The Washington Post's fact checker, which typically issues one to four Pinocchio marks for political lies and distortions, finds a claim...

So this story amused me to no end.  Not because the incident is funny, but because of the comments. Now I know, I know... never read the ...

Headline: "Modest ISIS Leader Credits Promotion Entirely to Drone Strikes." From America's finest news source, of course.

Isn't it strange how the "no Muslims at all, even US citizens" controversy broke right when it would be most helpful to Presid...

A recipe for roast duck and caramelized potatoes that are apparently a major dish in Denmark. Potatoes are of course a New World phenomeno...

Headline: "Muslims have more DNC delegates than Montana, Utah and Oklahoma put together." I assume that they actually are deleg...