Your morning inspirational tear-jerker ...

Breitbart's Big Journalism is so reporting , with a disturbing twist in the backstory...

In my teens and early 20s, I was a serious fanboy of the first three manned space programs (Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo).  I read everything...

Reader Simi L. passes along a slightly rewritten oldie-but-goodie: Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the The Oxford Eagle Newspaper in Oxford...

The WSJ has a good summary of Elena Kagan's background and experience.  There's lots more on the intertubes. My own take: she...

I've been saving this contribution (from reader and cousin Mike D.) for today: WHY GOD MADE MUMS Answers given by 2nd year school chi...

Forwarded to me by reader Doug W.: During a company's recent password audit, it was found that a blonde employee was using the followi...

My sister-in-law Gina P. passed along an email containing a letter from the State of Pennsylvania to a landowner in the state, and the lando...

My mom passed along this note from a friend of theirs: The latest thing in our house is that our 4 year old black Lab has figured out how t...

Via reader Dick F.  If you're a regular reader, you know I'm not a religious guy.  But the preacher who delivered the prayer below, ...

Found at a site I'd rather not link to (because there's much on there I don't want to support).  But these are priceless... Th...

This brings all sorts of fun little projects to mind.  The board is less than 4 inches square, consumes less than a half watt of power, and ...

By a commenter over at Megan McArdle's place .  The context was Megan's post about SWAT teams shooting homeowners or their dogs for ...

Birdemic is apparently a recently released movie.  I haven't watched a movie in years, and there is zero probability that I'll ever...

We really need to see much more of this.  M. Zuhdi Jasser, an American Muslim and former Navy Lieutenant Commander, wrote a letter to his fe...

I took this photo (as usual, click to enlarge) last Sunday, of a group of Lesser Goldfinches ( Carduelis psaltria ) feeding on niger thistle...

Memristors, that is.  If you're interested in electronics at all, this is something you'll want to keep an eye on.  I first heard a...

We've got several pairs of black-headed grosbeaks ( Pheucticus melanocephalus) at our feeders this year.  I took these photos last week...

If you're ancient enough, and were at all interested in space exploration, I'm sure you'll remember that day in 1969 when Armstr...

Here's a series of North Korean jokes , compiled by interviewing North Korean defectors. Sheesh...