This morning I received an email from a friend with a video clip about a tame Canadian goose who has made friends with a man and his dog. T...

The New Horizons robotic spacecraft recently passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto and the outer Solar System. On its way around Jupiter, it ...

From a church circular: This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepa...

Giraffiti , n: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

Forwarded by SimiL (one of my tiny-but-loyal group of regular readers): A group of Americans were traveling by tour bus through Holland. As ...

Sarchasm , n: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

Read about Megumi Yokota (from the Wall Street Journal$ ): Megumi, who was abducted in 1977, has become the symbol of the movement to free t...

Now here are some things that you just don’t see every day. Clearly there are quite a few sculptors with well-developed senses of humor and...

I just finished reading an excellent overview of American involvement in the Middle East: Power, Faith, and Fantasy by Michael Oren. Thoug...

Tip o’the hat to SimiL for this little story: An elderly gentleman of 83 arrived in Paris by plane. At the French customs desk, the man took...

Inoculatte , v: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

The Voice of San Diego — a refreshing change from the Pulitzer Prize winning San Diego Union-Buffoon — has an informative, well-written art...

This Thursday — yesterday — we received a flyer in the mail from Von’s (a western chain of grocery stores that’s part of the Safeway grocery...

Bruce Hall, on his blog Hall of Record , has done a very interesting piece of analysis that takes several posts over the past week. It’s a ...

Hipatitis , n: Terminal coolness.

Some interesting news from, of all places, Mars . Data from NASA satellites around Mars indicates that Mars is also experiencing a “global ...

Osteopornosis , n: A degenerate disease.

Shortly after 9/11, I first read about a poll of Muslim countries (at that time, primarily Arabic countries). This poll was designed to fin...

Karmageddon , n: It’s like, when everybody is, like, sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and i...

Glibido , n.: All talk and no action.