I can highly recommend Mary Roach's " Stiff ," about cadavers.  She's a hilarious geek, sort of a morbid John McPhee .  I...

We are complete suckers for home-buying, house-renovating, small-house-design shows of every stripe.  From "This Old House" to ...

The Twelve Days are already over, though by happenstance the Feast of the Epiphany waits for Sunday. We are getting our first real taste ...

Here's yet another reason not to feel very bad about the DNC losing its shirt to hackers -- not only did they hang up on the FBI when i...

The Vice President, who is called "Mr. President" here because he is ex officio President of the Senate, has no patience for rep...

More from USA Today, what's the world coming to?  Kirsten Powers gives us the down-home version of Charles Murray's "Coming Ap...

USA Today, to my amazement, has begun carrying regular OpEds by Glenn Reynolds.  This one reacted to a recent New Yorker cartoon showing an...

The story of the autistic youth kidnapped, beaten, and scalped in Chicago has spread far and wide. It's easy to understand how it fits...

The ownership of real property is something we've discussed from time to time here. If a private citizen goes to own a piece of land, h...

Someone set a cat among the pigeons this week inviting America's elite to admit whether they knew anyone with a pick-up truck.  Around h...

I don't know if you hadn't seen this, or had seen it but didn't care for it, but it seems pretty in your general wheelhouse. ...

Here's an interesting headline: Leonard Peltier's prosecutor has written a letter asking for him to be granted clemency. Peltie...

Business Insider apparently stopped in one recently , and noticed that it wasn't quite as they remembered it. Unless you’re a hardcore ...

Amazon's new "Alexa" has a lot in common with Mack. I wouldn't have one in my house for other reasons , in any case.

Everyone knows by now that you can sometimes hurt by helping too much.  So it should come as little surprise that some of the nation's n...

Let's make even the name smaller!  I'm just barely old enough to remember Goldwater's presidential campaign.  We thought the hei...

From an AEI article by Frederick Hess on the education wars: At root, teaching and learning are intuitive acts. Kids are naturally curiou...

A documentary.

My neighbor who lurks here reports that her niece can't hear arguments against man-made climate catastrophe; she fends them all off with...