Why does this have the ring of truth about it???

Our Secretary of State visited Egypt this weekend, where she was greeted by crowds chanting “Monica, Monica”, and tossing rotten tomatoes . ...

Spotted in a news report : Meanwhile, the Postal Service is on pace to lose billions of dollars this fiscal year, and owes $11 billion, in...

As seen by the Hubble telescope : Just in case it's not obvious: this is a spiral galaxy seen edge-on...

Yesterday evening, just before sunset, Debbie and I took off to do a little wildlife viewing.  We headed for one of our favorite spots: the ...

We've been actively feeding our orioles (Bullock's and Hooded, in roughly equal numbers) for several years now.  This year we have...

Kangaroos have evolved a special response to shopping bags: Yes, I know this can't possibly be for real.  I'll bet they had a lot...

Here's a beautifully simple illustration (click to enlarge) of the problems caused by the “welfare cliffs” (reductions in welfare benefi...

Taken by the Hubble Telescope, via APOD , of course:

From the Saskatoon Police Service (for the geographically challenged, Saskatoon is a city in Saskatchewan, Canada), this report on an inci...

Debbie and I finished up a project today: we put trim around the interior side of the new patio door we installed a few weeks ago.  We use...

Snopes says this is for real .  Read the message in the last photo (click to enlarge).  Via my lovely bride...

Of course they are!  Via my lovely bride:

The toshers of Victorian England .  There are a lot of candidates for the worst job ever.  This is certainly amongst the top tier, if not th...

Read about the father of the modern Olympics : Dr. William Penny Brookes of Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, England...

Starting with: Videos and Lectures KhanAcademy.org TED.com UnplugTheTV.com Learn New Things FuckingHomepage.com IfEveryoneKnew....

Via McSweeney's ... Reasons to Fear Canada. BY Sean Carman - - - - Ninety percent of population is massed within 100 miles of nort...

Mark Steyn at his best: Thus, in 2008, Barack Obama, being the preferred choice of America's youth, was, by definition, the candidate ...

Here's a graph that paints a clear view of something I find profoundly sad – the fact that our prison population is dominated by peopl...