Flares into Darkness

We can all sleep a little easier with the news that the UN has appointed Mazlan Othman , a Malaysian astrophysicist, as Earth's offici...

Christine O'Donnell won the Republican primary in Delaware and in the process she created a firestorm of horror in political circles, bo...

Due to the importance of this date, this post needs to be reflective, engaging and thought provoking.  Alas I'm writing it, and me bei...

No comments, just videos by the two great Mali blues musicians, Ali Farka Toure and his son Vieux Farka Toure. 

The picture above was taken by Bill Baggert. Shortly after it was taken the North Tower collapsed. Four days later his body was found in the...

A preacher with a minuscule congregation in north Florida threatens to burn a Koran and idiocy ensues.  Would I burn a Koran? No.  Do I c...

I must confess my faith in the common sense of the English has been badly shaken. Newslite has an article which lists, according to a poll o...

I subscribe to Stratfor , a website that provides analysis of global affairs. As part of the subscription they email me frequent items. Afte...

A blog I read regularly is Kent Frost's Nanny Knows Best . He's an English fellow who posts about the small outrages perpetrated by ...

Via walyou .

Actually I'm not mad, I just needed an excuse to post the above picture of a pissed-off dinner roll with a knife in its teeth. Although...

So Saturday I'm sitting on the patio with the Better Two-Thirds and a neighbor and we're having a beer or two and chatting. Out of...

Obama stepped into a political mine field when he waded into the Ground Zero Mosque issue.  He allowed the notion of tolerance, which by i...

I'm on vacation at the moment so posting will be erratic. Then again, my posting is always erratic so likely nobody would have noticed.....

“Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood ...

As if any of us can avoid posting about, as John Hinderaker at Powerline called it,  the Breitbart-NAACP-Vilsack-Sherrod affair... It stri...

"British scientists believe they have cracked the answer to the age-old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg?  Resea...

Somebody called Squid314 posted a hilariously creative rant about the History Channel's TV show "WWII" being unbelievable an...

Here's an interesting video showing how astronauts, inspired by rocket fuel tanks, have figured out how to create coffee cups usable in...

There is a Washington Post Review, Norman Rockwell exhibit opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum , by Blake Gopnik that's making ...