The New York Sun is reporting a fascinating development : One of Al Qaeda's senior theologians is calling on his followers to end their ...

Here's the introduction to a report just submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works: Over 400 prominen...

Another one from Mike D. (thanks!): Holiday Diagnoses: 1) Schizophrenia - Do You Hear What I Hear, the Voices, the Voices? 2) Amn...

Forwarded by Mike D., tongue firmly in cheek (I think): The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United Stat...

If you've read this blog for a while, you may remember the Unarians – a bizarre cult headquartered in El Cajon, and owning property near...

Several movies about Iraq have recently been released: Lions for Lambs , Redacted , and The War . All of them have a distinctly anti-war me...

Last week's puzzler was this: what caused the “erratic boulders” that are found all over the country of Estonia? Most of you (13 of 17)...

I just finished reading this fine memoir by Clarence Thomas (Supreme Court Justice). It was not at all what I was expecting. I knew nothi...

From TigerHawk: Call me an irony junkie, but I find it hilarious that the pope of the Roman Catholic Church is worried that the "dogma...

This past Friday through Sunday we had a second rain storm, adding about 1.35 inches to our rainfall for the year. Yahoo! This morning, to ...

My mother-in-law is a sweet and wonderful person, and I love her dearly. She's also a nearly perfect anti-geek, a technophobe at a leve...

Offered as evidence to support the assertion that there is no bound to human silliness:

Simi L. sent these along. Many of these I had heard before, but not all. They're all great – both funny and wise… If you don't rea...

By request (of Bob Clay), here are our favorite places to eat in or near Jamul (using Jamul to mean the entire unincorporated area, not just...

Blogging has been light because I've been having a (tiny) little bit of a life this weekend. My lovely bride and I toured the snow in o...

I found a fascinating article about the future of U.S. health care that resonates strongly with me. A sample: Politicians from across the p...

On this day in 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his speech urging Congres...

I caught this little snippet from an article in the Union-Tribune : Fire isn't the only problem facing San Diego County's choose-an...

The correct answer to last week's puzzler was “Gunter's Rule”. You can see one from my collection here . For this week's questi...

Several of you actually noticed that I haven't posted for a few days – the reason was an evil illness (most likely some sort of food poi...