My brother Mark explains why he's going to vote Democrat: WHY I AM VOTING “DEMOCRAT” I'm voting Democrat because I believe the gover...

A different kind of wisdom, from some of the usual – and not-so-usual – suspects: A government big enough to give you everything you want, i...

You can read this as a pure joke, but there's enough truth in it to sting: Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the Wh...

John McCain has a commentary piece in today's WSJ titled We Are All Georgians . Here's the conclusion: The world has learned at gre...

This morning I received this email from Kristin Johnson at the National Wildlife Foundation: Dear Friend of Wildlife, According to leaked do...

Great news – Cassini survived the Enceladus fly-by, and is currently transmitting data gathered during the fly-by to Earth. The science tea...

I spent this weekend engaged in three very different activities: programming, gardening, and our ongoing war against ants. Somehow these th...

The Cassini mission to Saturn has been spectacularly successful – thanks to its work, mankind has gained more understanding of Saturn and i...

I work for Service-now.com, primarily developing software that does “discovery” – finding out about the existence of any sort of equipment p...

As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I'll take the roar of 50,000 Harl...

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn 's writings – especially The Gulag Archipelago – played a large part in my personal political awakening. Until...

The indispensable Snopes has verified that this was published as a letter to the editor in the Richmond, Virginia Times-Dispatch, on July 7...

Megan McArdle posted the map at right (along with two other related and equally interesting maps) a couple days ago. Her post is mainly co...

Just a couple of days ago, MIT released a rather breathlessly worded press release proclaiming a new breakthrough technology their scientist...

I'm sure you've heard the news about the earthquake near Los Angeles yesterday – a 5.4 temblor (the big blue square on the map at ri...

Good for some chuckles and ponders... Sent along by Simon M.: Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. One teq...

Last night, I proved this beyond any reasonable doubt. Debbie (my wife) and I traveled to a distant place – the Del Mar race track – to wat...

Recently I purchased a Mac “Mini” for my wife. In general I am very pleased with this purchase – the price was right ($800), it reuses comp...

The American Association for Justice (formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association) has published a list of the 10 worst insurance compan...