The solstice is upon us. May your winter be a good one, warm and full of pleasant company.

An asteroid will make a nearish miss  with Earth on Boxing Day this year.  It's not all that close, about 4.5 million miles, and it'...

The magnetic North Pole has been drifting from Ellesmere Island towards Russia, and will soon be captured by that crafty Putin.  Magnetic f...

A review of old and new options . I have only gotten up there once and won’t likely again, but some of you might.

A review of the work of a scholar of cookbooks.

At first I thought this comic was doing Denis Leary, but about 2/3rds in he suddenly takes on a serious tone Leary never quite attempted. H...

J. K. Rowling, whose work I've never read but who was apparently extremely popular with children and young adults, has transgressed . R...

A man in Iowa is sentenced to 16 years for burning the LGBT "Rainbow" flag.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has chosen to withhold her caucus' Articles of Impeachment, as some of you may have heard, until whenever.  I...

I don't generally watch television; haven't for years and years. On my last trip to DC, however, I stayed with some friends who do ...

Ashe Schow is right about this proposal . Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) proposed legislation on Tuesday that would close what he called a “loopho...

Tulsi : I could not in good conscience vote for impeachment because removal of a sitting President must not be the culmination of a partisan...

Strange how often "labor laws" kills jobs, but hey, it's California .  We'd rather you had no job than a job we don't ...

The Fifth Circuit has just ruled that the ACA individual mandate is unconstitutional, now that there's no longer a tax we can pretend t...

Do you think that, now that this ridiculous political theater is finally nearly over, the House might actually get something besides impeach...

Dozens of Australian men are not giving birth . UPDATE: This also .

Gig workers “protect” themselves by legislation, get fired in droves.  Vox Media is laying off hundreds of freelance writers and editors due...

Oh, dear . Propaganda played a crucial role during World War II, with the O.S.S. leading efforts to demoralize the enemy and encourage resis...

A glorious history .