Well, not really – Snopes says it's fake , and has been rewritten for other countries as well.  But the snide answers are still funny as...

Via my mom: In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth and populated the Earth with broccoli, cauliflower and spinach, green a...

It's sunny and cool (just 67°F as I write this) here; a simply gorgeous day.  I played the video below just a few minutes ago and greatl...

John Byrnes' Chaocipher has long intrigued cryptanalysts, mainly because how it worked was never revealed and nobody could be sure that...

What do you get when you combine a cell phone with a camera, a few LEDs, and some very clever software?  A biological microscope, that's...

From the Wide Field Imager at La Silla ...

A great collection of motivational posters like the one at right, from The Art of Manliness ...

The DEA helped Equador locate and confiscate a 30-foot long submarine in the jungle near the border with Columbia. DEA Andean Regional Dir...

It's still just us, in the United States.  But maybe someday everyone will be able to celebrate their freedom from tyranny...

Via reader Simi L.:

By James Taranto, in Best of the Web Today : We'd say anyone who thinks that John Kerry's passion is the answer is asking the wrong...

CBS is currently running a poll to see what Americans think of Obama's performance.  Surprisingly they're allowing people to see th...

My mom forwarded a video of a “dolphin stampede” in the Sea of Cortez.  I've seen such things myself, while in the U.S. Navy cruising in...

My mom forwarded this letter to me (by email).  I did some poking around the inter-tubes, trying to locate its origin – this is the closest...

Here's serial idiot Pelosi with another outrageously stupid pronouncement (this time, that unemployment benefits are the fastest way to ...

Pretty much at the same time...

Calculated Risk puts these charts together each month when the government releases its employment reports.  The first chart (at right) is ...

Sweet Daughter (a four year-old girl) drew the picture at right and asked her mother to give it to a “Camouflage Person” (a soldier). Read...

Hamas, the well-known peace-loving organization that controls Gaza, has come up with a new way to bedevil the Israelis: garbage trucks that ...