IRS Agents Slide Down Chimneys Looking For Gifts Of $600 Or More Uh-Oh: Someone Let Aiden Hold A Candle For 'Silent Night' In Christ...

 

 

When we lived in China many years ago now, my wife and I encountered a form of Chinese humor that is really quite dominant there: the homoph...

Putting up and decorating a large, natural Christmas tree was fomenting domestic discord, so for the last several years I've been experi...

The author is not successful in establishing his thesis, which would require a defense of the massive issues around batteries and e-waste....

After Captain Blood , I decided to give Sabatini another try and read Scaramouche . I definitely learned more reading this book than the pri...

I would not have thought that Herschel Walker could lose an election in Georgia, but he did. A friend points out that he might have simply w...

This year the main story out of Pearl Harbor is Red Hill . Built after the Japanese raids, it is an under-mountain fuel facility that is pro...

 

In the discussion to the Riddle of Steel post below, a matter has come up that deserves its own discussion.   Blogger jabrwok said... The St...

For some reason we got dramatically better at preventing coastal flood deaths just at the turn of the millenium. I can't think of a goo...

Although a bit dark, the article does have some mild suggestions to make motorcycle rallies safer: Organ Donations, Transplants Increase on ...

A post at the Foundation for Economic Education on our favorite riddle .  It was not until many years later, while studying Ludwig von Mises...

The Orthosphere offers a striking proposal on the fall of Rome. It was at one time a commonplace among historians that Rome had failed for d...

Japan in 1941 wasn't always bent on war with the United States; but it was bent, from the late 19th century, on becoming a high tech eco...

A new sport takes shape (h/t Instapundit). I propose that points be awarded on a scale of how many vehicles are able to pass relative to ho...

Today is the Feast of St. Andrew, which is also a national holiday in Scotland. For those few Scots who still speak Gaelic, which has not be...

Today we had an emergency medical call to a house in a remote mountain community, one where most of the houses are out of sight of the main ...

I've been reading excerpts from Vaclav Havel's work for decades, so I guess it's time I read his epochal book, The Power of the ...