ObamaCare = forced redistribution of wealth...   Neo-Neocon elaborates .  Not happy, she is...

Gibbous Europa...   Via APOD , of course!

Well, that's one way to pay for ObamaCare!  Citizens of Washington state who used the Washington ObamaCare exchange are reporting that...

“It hasn’t worked.”   So says a Democratic senate candidate .  Apparently if something is really obvious, even the progressives can see it...

Pater: Chess...  At right, my dad is resting near a small pond in Mt. Lassen National Park, in June 2007.  For some reason he was fascina...

The selfie...   Ramirez nails it:

The magic piano...   I want one!

Peak schadenfreude alert...   Delicious!  Just go read it ...

Government by teenagers...   George Will , on That One's administration and ObamaCare...

A tale of two cities...   Via my mom... Chicago, IL  Houston, TX  Population  ...

The ObamaCare paper pileup...   A Pro Publica article ...

Backdating ObamaCare...   A Wall Street Journal editorial ...

The Potemkin web site...   A Washington Times editorial ...

A million images...   And many more to come .  The British Library has released one million copyright-free images that are available for an...

Pater: the meeting...   At right, my dad tromping up Turner Mountain, near Mt. Lassen National Park in June 2007.  It was a balmy day, but...

Saturn's bizarro-land hexagonal jet stream...   Starring in the new NASA short at right...

Rope.  Tree.  Some assembly required...   Every revelation about Benghazi makes That One's administration look worse – a triumph of pol...

What a great idea!   Via my mom...

Cats vs. Dogs: the dog bed edition...

To That One, the IRS is a political weapon...   Change a few names and it starts to sound like a bit like the old Soviet Union ...