Bad Web Behavior Alert: FTD Florists...   Back in early November, I used the FTD web site to order flowers for my mother-in-law.  The flower...

Escalante Staircase...   Twisted Sifter ...  I love this part of the red rock country in Utah...

No bailout!   Charles Krauthammer argues that Republicans should force a vote to repeal the parts of ObamaCare that allows the government to...

2013 was a banner year ... for science papers about the solar influence on the Earth's climate.  Here's a collection of 71 such pap...

Caught red-handed!   Bad kitty...

Eleven attorneys general say That One is a law-breaker...   They point out the obvious: it's a violation of our U.S. Constitution for th...

New baby in the family?   No ObamaCare coverage for the little one !  Yet another “glitch” in the top-down redesign of our healthcare system...

ObamaCare causing people to forgo needed treatment...  The first line of this article (from a U.K. newspaper!) says it all: Hospital sta...

Indistinguishable from magic...   And it looks like magic, even when you know how it works!  I've seen this acoustic levitation in ac...

NSA is building a quantum computer to crack encryption...   This is all over the news today , because it's confirmed in the documents Sn...

Lock picking made easy...   Reading this, it actually does look easy !

Oops!  There goes another ObamaCare promise...   One of the oft-repeated “selling points” for ObamaCare was that it would reduce the use of ...

The poor darling sustained some minor injuries...   Seems the cutie at right, one Corneilyus Howeth, threatened workers at a hair salon wi...

Zip.  Nada.  Zero.  None.  You get the idea...   That's how many small businesses have seen their healthcare costs go down because of Ob...

California leads the way ... in businesses celebrating their leaving !

Geek: The Mill...   Reader and friend Doug W. passed this fascinating development along: a project to redesign digital computers by rethin...

Parental planning...   When Sandra Denis got pregnant, she and her partner (photographer Patrice Laroche) decided to prepare an explanatio...

So that's why there's an angel on top of the Christmas tree!   My mom explains: A Little Christmas Story When four of Santa’s e...

California leads the way ... in sea lion poop problems ...  San Diego is the locale...

Dogs can sense weak magnetic fields...   Here's the conclusion from a recent study (note: MF means the Earth's natural magnetic fi...