We don't need the Klan back either, but we definitely don't need any Nazis down South . We don't need them, and I don't wa...

Racy stuff for a Friday night -- a thousand year old poem. As our favorite cowboy Old Norse expert points out, many of the sexually expli...

Ezra Klein writes a piece titled: Behind the Google diversity memo furor is fear of Google’s vast, opaque power . Good point. For exampl...

I'm just going to say it. #NRA & @DLoesch are quickly becoming domestic security threats under President Trump. We can't ignore ...

Obviously this argument on abortion is not one I favor; you've all been around long enough to know what I think about abortion, and if n...

Edinburgh Castle is so old that its founding is shrouded in myths and legends . Some of these are Arthurian, although the site of the castl...

I remember reading years ago about how Saddam's support for the Palestinians was not shared by many Iraqis, who viewed them quite negati...

Mr Paul plays a mean deadpan when he's telling a joke. Here's John Lee Hooker early on. I enjoy hearing him talk.

The second paragraph is pretty clear and easy to understand. UPDATE: Just in case that wasn't clear enough .

What this guy just told me, and the rest of the world, is that two-bit managers at Google can read all the things that they pretend to prov...

Some academics respond to the memo, for what it's worth : #1: The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly...

A biological theory  suggests that the reason animals don't always kill each is economics. Cooperation was common in nature—not just bet...

One of the things discussed in the article cited immediately below was the firing of the Google employee who wrote a memo critical of divers...

Though the original the goal of reputation systems was to issue access tokens to control entry into the groups, they are double edged. Donal...

Saw this today. Everybody reading this knows the story, but this is fascinatingly done. I have never seen my wife on the edge of her seat in...

This is alarming . “As the respected leaders of our brave armed service members, you have no obligation to implement a hastily considered tw...

This week I had occasion to watch two movies that turn, in important ways, on bikers' relationship with the military. The first was 197...

What do you think conscription's for? Europe is the continent with the fewest people willing to fight a war for their country. Globally,...

From the NY Sun : SAS soldiers are trying out “Star Wars”-style bulletproof helmets in the war against terror. The SAS is the UK’s answer to...