From my cousin Mike D.: As a young piper, I was asked by a funeral director to play at a grave-side service for a homeless man, with no fami...

Via reader Simi L.: Mrs. McGervey was walking down O'Connell Street in Dublin when she met up with Father Flaherty. The Father said, ...

From Little Green Footballs : Hope-a-Dope Heh!

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Here is the complete text of a very short story posted by one Ben Knight, of the AP: The political leader of Hamas has declared that his or...

From Andrew, posting at the Protein Wisdom Pub : You just had to, didn’t you? You couldn’t just enjoy your victory, couldn’t just let the ma...

From yesterday's edition of El Economista (a Mexican newspaper), which included the photo at right of a demonstration in front of the U...

An oldie-but-goodie via my cousin Mike, on the difference between teachers and educators: According to a news report, a certain private scho...

I'm sure you've heard that California has a budget crisis. You may not be aware of the astounding magnitude of the deficit we'r...

Just like everyone else, I was overjoyed to find out that everyone on board Flight 1549 survived the crash landing into the Hudson River. ...

From the Botany Photo of the Day web site. I want one!

Said the parent of this young man : I had one of those moments today that parents have children for. The kind of moment that makes you just...

Cassini – NASA's robotic explorer in orbit around Saturn – recently traveled into Saturn's shadow, where it took this spectacular p...

A wonderful, entertaining, and classic Rachel Lucas rant ...

Quite possibly “Rabbit of the Decade”... If only some of our politicians had the huevos of this bunny...

For hard disk drives, that is. The original electronic computers of the late 1940s and early 1950s had hundreds and hundreds of moving parts...

Bruce Schneier coined this lovely term (“security theater”) for the actions taken in the name of making us safer, but which actually provide...

In several different capacities over the years, I've been responsible for corporate IT security. One of the things I did was to test pa...