Via my lovely bride, who would give just about anything to have this experience:

Via my lovely bride:

It's the first law of government: spending always grows, even when they say it isn't.  Here's a nice interactive graphic to hel...

Jim DeMint is an aberration – a voice of sanity in our Congress.  One can listen to him, or read his writings, and come away with the sense ...

Terence Tao has just published a paper, titled “Every odd number greater than 1 is the sum of at most five primes”.  He's also got a blo...

That's my reaction to this news ...

If you've read the Harry Potter novels, then the name Dolores Umbridge will be one I'm sure you'll recognize immediately – she ...

Do you like the drawing at right? Artist Sarah Esteje did it, and more like it .   With a BIC pen.  Yes, just a BIC pen... Awesome!

Roger Wiliams is a Republican running for Congress, from Texas.  His platform is, essentially, “fight Obama”.  Other than that, I know almos...

From the London Daily Mail .  Interesting how these are emerging after all these years...

Andrew Breitbart, railing at the “Occupy CPAC” protesters this past weekend: Seems to me that we could use a few more angry political obs...

First time I've heard this line, from a song by Felix Leclerc: “The best way to kill a man is to pay him for doing nothing.” I found i...

Collect GPS data from 10,000 taxi rides in New York City, over the course of 24 hours.  Then turn them into a movie, and here's what you...

There was a time, not so very long ago, when this announcement would have greatly upset me.  Starting in my teens and up to 10 or so years ...

The Atlantic has a great article on Alcoa's 50,000 ton forging press , recently refurbished.  I was fascinated to read that in the ...

Under pressure from the Obama administration, St. Paul withdrew from a case they believed they could win at the U.S. Supreme Court.  Today...

Since returning from my travels last week, I've been fighting off some evil rhinovirus.  I've got all the usual symptoms of a really...

Rick Perry has a column in today's Wall Street Journal .  An excerpt: It seems unimaginable, yet President Obama refused Trans-Canada...

Recent events in Greece sound like an implausible Hollywood plot: citizens riot because the government is reducing their welfare.  That'...

As I watched this, I felt the presence of backhoe greatness.  Never in my wildest imagination could I do this with my backhoe...