Craftiness obsesses me at most times, but never more than at this season. It's amazing what you can find if you dig into a craft box you...

The Hall’s tree. It’s not decorated to compete with Tex, but it is twelve feet tall. Second highest tree I’ve ever mounted, but of better q...

Shooting the cops in this case is dangerous—they may send a SWAT team to kill you—and in many places it's illegal. But it is nevertheles...

An album from Waylon that found its way online.

The state of New York has an idea to reduce gun ownership: make every gun owner carry a million-dollar insurance policy . Well, it's...

An argument from a Satan-loving professor in Minnesota . “The virgin birth story is about an all-knowing, all-powerful deity impregnating a ...

Several of us seem to be interested in language, so I thought I'd post a link to editor and language columnist for The Economist Lane G...

And how would you know ? There are some standing answers, such as the Turing test, and Sebastian Rödl's test for self-consciousness. ...

Over at The Federalist , David Marcus writes about the problems America has because of the starkly different definitions of "racism...

The UN has an idea: give voting rights to migrants. Immediately . Hidden amongst the 38 jargon-laced pages, the compact affirms the “entit...

A meditation at The Federalist . As I write in my new book, “I Used To Be Conservative: Confessions Of A Conservative Who Used To Be A Cons...

Vanity Fair just published a 'Trump-Hater's guide to Mueller skepticism.' Objectively, the fines extracted from Paul Manafort h...

A plant 'cyborg' has proven to have the capacity to move itself around to seek better light. We all know that plants can detect li...

A Welsh poetic insight into human nature. [Robert Macfarlane] credits his parents and his grandfather for passing on to him an abiding love...

Songwriter on this one was Kris Kristofferson.

I'd like to second AVI's recommendation to read this Virginia Postrel essay on culture . This is something we've been talking ab...

A 28-year-old dominatrix in England has decided to use her power to convince white Tories to vote socialist. Maybury, aka Mistress Rebecca,...

In his essay The Monsters and the Critics , Tolkien mentions a phrase used by the Beowulf poet: "Haeledh Under Heofenum." He say...