Scott Adams, a free-weight rack that arrived disassembled, a visit to Home Depot, and a Shop-Vac.  What could possibly go wrong ?

Two informative posts at Watts Up With That? , one on the non-linearity of CO2's effects vs. concentration , and the other on yet anoth...

The always-excellent Michael Totten recently visited Romania, and his resulting piece lives up to his high standards .  Hit his tip jar, won...

I've been saying this for years ...

Several states have passed the so-called “Amazon tax”, intended to force Amazon to collect sales tax for the state.  These tax measures are ...

An Amercian soldier who served in World War II complains to his doctor of what he presumes is arthritis – and discovers that he has had a bu...

Last month a student at NYU was peeved because a professor (Scott Galloway) wouldn't admit him to the class when he showed up an hour la...

It's starting to happen, thanks to the conjunction of cheap bandwidth and cheap storage.  Here's a great example: back up your Mac t...

...they figure out how to answer it.  In this case, an engineer had a vital question: would a lava lamp work on the surface of Jupiter ? ...

Driving into work this morning, I noticed a car that passed me because its taillights were a distinctly different shade of red.  A few minut...

If you have any interest at all in graphical presentation, then Edward Tufte is a name you will recognize.  I own several of his books , fro...

The evils of scurvy were banished in the 1700s, or so I was taught.  While reading about Robert F. Scott's 1911 journey to Antarctica, M...

The infamous “Auschwitz Album” – the only surviving photographs of Auschwitz in operation – is now online .  Also included are explanatory t...

Every once in a while I wander “down the hill” to Rancho San Diego to get a haircut.  For several years now I've been patronizing a barb...

James Delingpole smells fear amongst the warmenists ... USA Today on scientists' reactions to the AGW debate and the rise of AGW skep...

All Quin Hillyer wants from Obama is a little humility: A little humility would be nice. So would a sense that he answers to the public r...

This post could just as well have been titled a flying pig moment.  This is from that bastion of progressive propaganda, Newsweek : It is d...

Mark Steyn on Obamacare: Andrew McCarthy concluded a shrewd analysis of the political realities thus: "Health care is a loser for th...

Hundreds of people and millions of dollars...and a young soldier is still alive today ...

Friday Geert Wilders was in London (and not detained this time), where he gave a rousing speech to the U.K. House of Lords.  One of many pas...