This makes me want to cry...   You really need to watch the whole thing.  Then think about the state of education in this country...

A disaster on so many levels...   James Taranto has renamed ObamaCare: it's now “Vaporcare”.  As Mr. Taranto puts it: ...ObamaCare i...

Raise the minimum wage, reduce the number of jobs.  CoyoteBlog has an easy-to-understand description of why this is so...

Just 35 diskettes!  Though the box says 48 disks, so I'm not sure what's up with that.  But – a full 16 colors , too!  And it eve...

Pie Jesu - Fauré's famous aria from the Requiem in D minor .  This is a beautiful performance of it, but what makes it especially no...

NGC 6357...   From APOD , of course.  Glorious full resolution photo here .

Hear, hear!   Brit Hume on what the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party is trying to accomplish.  Well said, and briefly too. I'm...

From the Department of Doublespeak...  Sylvia Burwell is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) , and an Obama admini...

4.6033388489.   That's the answer to this puzzle , involving monsters, perfectly circular lakes, and rowboats.  Oh, and just a little ca...

Scary story.  Identity thieves purchased consumer information from Experian .  Yikes!

Creative advertising.   Lots more on this web site .  Some of these are really, really clever...

This smacks of desperation...   Obama announces a “tech surge” to fix the broken ObamaCare web sites .  That's not what you do to fix a ...

Fly over Mars...   The short video at right was made from stereographs taken from Martian orbit.  Some snippets are in natural (or near-na...

Libtards, by Dixon Diaz.   I've just been introduced to this by my lovely bride.  Here's the motto, from his Facebook page : We e...

The American Medical Association (AMA) weighs in on ObamaCare.   Via my mom: The American Medical Association has weighed in on Obama'...

Another way to pick our pockets.   This time, proposed by the IMF ...

Jahar is doing fine.   We had a bit of a scare yesterday afternoon, when he managed somehow to pull out 3 or 4 cm (an inch and a half or...

Jahar is back home.   He's got a huge incision in his tummy, about 6 or 7 inches long.  It's sprayed with metallic silver as an anti...

Teaching kids how to think.   The Economist reviewed a new book : “The Smartest Kids in the World: and How They Got That Way”.  There's ...

The process of science isn't perfect.   To anyone not blinded by their faith in science, that's no surprise.  What might be a bit...