Via Jim M.: A Wisconsin farmer named Olie (Olav) had a car accident. He was hit by a truck owned by the Eversweet Company, a Harley Westo...

There are petty thieves in almost every workplace.  They drive their fellow workers crazy by stealing drinks and food that belong to other...

Cisco appears to have completely given up on its various forays into consumer electronics, selling off the profitable Linksys line to Belkin...

Some interesting thoughts from a female veteran , and this post has links to three other excellent articles , all thought-provoking. If po...

A collection of beautiful and fascinating photos taken in 2012 , like the photo below of Mt. Rainier (in Washington State) casting a shadow ...

It's been eight years or so since I last visited this little country.  I ran across this beautiful photo taken yesterday near Suurupi, E...

Another in a series of similar ads.  Each of these makes me wonder how I'd react were I to witness this...

Awww...  Isn't that cute?

Danny and Gina articulate the reasons why it makes no sense for them to work – and makes great sense for them to  stay on welfare .  They...

...from reader Simi L. (who is himself a doctor):

Reader Simi L. sent me a collection of these.  A few favorites:

American universities and colleges provide (allegedly) two distinct services that have always been bundled together:  they educate, and they...

I'm discovering that there is an entire (and well-populated!) genre, long-established, of a capella music where voices replace music th...

Frank Zappa was an interesting man, far beyond his music, which is how I first came to know about him.  I still listen to his music frequen...

Between Friday and Saturday, we've had just over an inch of rain.  My new weather station software graphs rainfall rates , rather than...

Relatively few Americans know anything at all about Norman Borlaug , quite possibly never having heard of him at all.  I first heard about h...

Obama's been slapped down (for once!) for one of his many overreaching attempts to create an Imperial Presidency.  Much more here from R...

Playwright David Mamet is an eloquent convert to conservatism from progressivism.  His writings are often interesting and provocative, as i...