Ok, it's advertising, so I apologize for that, but- wow!  It's perhaps the best 'commercial' I've ever watched, and the ...

A neighbor brought this cabbage-slaw-blackeyed-pea dish to a next-door New Year's Eve Party, to fulfill the traditional requirement for...

Johnny Cash and Bruce Springsteen both covered this 1996 Sting song, but unaccountably changed its interesting 9/8 time signature to a stand...

Schumper: Trump threatened to keep government shut down for 'years.' The jobs numbers are amazing . What better time for former g...

On the same topic as Pidgin BBC news, here's a letter recommending that you try Old English . It’s written in a slightly different alpha...

A new Justice Ministry regulation taking effect Sunday will make it mandatory for women to be notified by text message when a court issues ...

Well, pre-Columbians , anyway. They were originally contemporaneous with the Viking Age, but still being practiced as the Renaissance was w...

It's a worthy question, actually. We make foreigners reside in America for at least seven years before pursuing citizenship. Should st...

As China rises, with its 'social credit' monitoring of every aspect of human life, we see a new kind of totalitarianism : not one...

Would you be surprised to hear that a major American industry is now primarily led by women? Would you be more surprised to learn that it w...

Mitt Romney published an editorial claiming that Donald Trump lacks the character to be President. Will Chamberlain offers a kind of opposi...

I found this argument at First Things fairly persuasive . It may be slightly too strong on the Biblical aspects -- Jefferson would have th...

Happy New Year! The Torch parade in Edinburgh .

AVI has stated a general principle that the titles of satirical articles generally are much funnier than the actual articles. Not so this t...

Well, no. Not really. Just everyone else's , if he can. Pope Francis urged political leaders on Monday to defend migrants, saying thei...

Thanks, against everything you'd expect from the normal news sources, to the Trump administration .

As the year draws to a close, and with the new year looming before us, it's a time to try to gain a little perspective on ourselves and ...

May God keep you for the next year to come. Not that there are any guarantees on this night, or any night. But if you're a good drink...

Did you know that the BBC has a pidgin-language website? It turns out that this year's Miss Africa pageant was quite exciting. Miss Af...