It’s not the sort of place you’d expect to be magical, but sometimes …

Via Raven, a look at what it takes to establish industry where there isn’t any; it’s in Pakistan, but it may matter for reestablishment of ...

 

We all have stories we tell ourselves and each other about how our lives went, how we became whoever it is that we are. What if you were sta...

National treasure Dolly Parton was admitted to the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame and declined, stating that she wasn't actually a rock m...

Probably because I first learned about knots and their many excellent uses in the Boy Scouts, I think of them as a particularly manly skill ...

Recently in Sudan, we had another experience of the US State Department abandoning American citizens to their fate (as more infamously in Af...

PJM points out : Addressing the committee, [Senator] Goldman said, “You’re trying to gaslight us up here, as if Antifa—which Mr. Rosas is ap...

OK, but scroll to "Dante."  

Here's something you don't see everyday: a new, handwritten text by the Medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides. He is best known amo...

Nor, in fact, even any evidence of any. This will not shock readers of the Hall, in spite of the multiple impeachments and the years-long S...

The diet of seagoing men in the seventeenth century wasn't enviable , but there were highlights on occasions for those who sought far en...

It's impossible , they say, on the occasion of another failure of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA): Equality isn’t impossible simply bec...

All's lost, but not forever. Poland is not lost forever. Günter Grass, The Tin Drum Post-Soviet Poland embraced free enterprise wh...

Today I learned that you can’t buy an ad to run in Times Square that is critical of someone without their written permission. This is true o...

To those among you who have earned the title, our best. To the rest of you, remember yours today. 

If you are unaware of the Flappr YouTube channel you are in for a treat. There you will find some of the funniest and informative historical...

The earlier Nicholas De Santo bit was from Comedy Unleashed, and they have a number of funny comedians on. Here's Mary Bourke, "I F...

The Biblical reference is to Ecclesiastes 11 , if you don’t recognize it. 

There is no reasonable defense for Ireland's new law on 'hate speech,' which is the kind of law one couldn't hope to comply ...