Over at Politico, Ben Smith talks about an email he received from a Republican consultant. This fellow was conducting a focus group to tes...

A simple, but effective presentation by Penn & Teller:

Reader Jim M. sent me this little comedy essay. I had tears running down my face by the time I finished it... Chili Cook-Off If you can rea...

The National Health Service (NHS) in England is often held up as an example of how to do it right by the proponents of socialized health car...

Normally I don't pay any attention at all to the likes of Howard Stern – but somehow I surfed to the audio clip below, and I was dumbstr...

Here's the lead of an excellent editorial over at the National Review : L ast June, five Supreme Court justices dreamed up a constitutio...

Don't understand the recent banking crisis? Here it is, explained in a single, very easy-to-understand graphic .

Jeff Goldstein is feeling his oats; there's all kinds of tasty treats on Protein Wisdom these past few days. For example, he's rew...

The fire down near Campo has been officially dubbed the “Shockey Fire”, presumably for its proximity to Shockey Truck Trail. I just heard a ...

Latest report is all good news: 50% containment, lots of air and ground crews working on it, confidence from the fire chief on continuing co...

The sun is just rising now, and at right is the view looking east from the Lyons Peak camera. The smoke from the Campo fire should be near ...

It seems like we're not even allowed one Santa Ana without a fire in the East County... This fire is out near Campo, just north of the U...

Watch it to the end: It took me a moment to realize that the swing seat is not connected with rope, but with solid (presumably wooden) poles...

We Americans get a lot of guff from certain European countries about the various and sundry evil ways we have, our miserable political syste...

The graph at right shows the wind speeds at our home, in MPH (multiply by 1.6 to get KPH). The green line shows the running 5-minute averag...

From the news wire: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday that Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affai...

Here's collection of the work of some of the best and brightest photographers specializing in high-speed photography. The example at ri...

A couple of people wrote today to ask what I was talking about when I said “fuel moisture” in an earlier post. First, there's a graph of...

Now all you folks from chillier climes can start laughing right now. But by our Southern California standards, it's starting to get col...

...even though the polls have him all but annointed. In these times of financial turmoil, a bold idea that was good for the economy and tha...