Flares into Darkness

The FDNY rushed to W 43rd St. this afternoon, hurrying to place safety nets at the base of the New York Times Building in order to protect p...

A friend has a neighbor who just bought a brand new car. The neighbor moved over the car seat, his coffee mug, and his Kerry-Edwards '04...

What will those pesky scientists come up with next ? Now I am you and you are me; we just need the surgeon's new knife to make it so.

I received an email from Skookumchuk and have received his permission to post it. He was heavily involved in the Katrina response and provid...

Glenn Reynolds is touting a new campaign against federal pork. The US is undoubtedly spending an extraordinary amount of money in the War o...

Three weeks ago at just about this time everyone was breathing a sigh of relief. Katrina had narrowly missed New Orleans and serious damage ...

Two elections were held yesterday, one in Germany and one in Afghanistan. The results in Germany appear to signal a slight shift to the rig...

How long, my son asks, until the Pulitzer Prize will be awarded to a blogger? He guesses 2015 will be the first one.

Just awalkin' the dog I feel a need to get on the board here. Just curious... Are any of y'all prone to going walkabout or make a ha...

Sub category, book review. I'm interested in hearing what the rest of you consider worth reading, and I hope that book recommendations w...

I never knew much about Canada growing up. I loved "Rocky and Bullwinkle" and knew William Shatner was from Canada, and later I bo...

I got home from a trip to DC today, picked up the new Economist, and read a load of malarkey about the racist attitudes of Texans and how th...

I just came across this article by Mark Steyn, in which he discusses the hoariness of the American Constitution. The British writer Jonatha...

I was fortunate enough today to have the opportunity to listen to one of the world's foremost experts give a lecture on Antarctica. His ...

Charles Murray has an article up at Commentary that examines what strongly appear to be innate differences in intelligence between men and w...

Have you ever considered the power of the first post? The one that sets the tone for everything else? In a short while it becomes impossible...