The Smallest Minority

Oh my god.  It's TEN YEARS OLD . If you're unfamiliar with it, IMNSHO this blog post at Unqualified Offerings - and the accompany...

So a writer at Alternet gives a litany of woe for post-Katrina New Orleans, and Salon.com picks it up .  Excerpt: 35. The New Orleans Regi...

Firehand tagged me over at Bookface, pointing me at this piece by Adaptive Curmudgeon, Thoughts On Z-Blog's "On Being Revolting in...

Author Terry Pratchet wrote in his Discworld novel Feet of Clay , Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, t...

OK, this one was new to me.  Not exactly the same scene from the film Downfall we're used to seeing:

From the depths of 2013 comes this timeless and ever-true comment by David Burge, aka Iowahawk: Journalism is about covering important s...

I'm currently reading The Far Arena by Richard Ben Sapir, the story of Roman gladiator Lucius Aurelius Eugenianus, frozen in a glacier...

Over on Facebook, Firehand linked to an excellent essay by Patrick Deneen, "David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Consti...

Reader Bram left a comment to my last post, The "Education" System from a Primary Source with a link to a short piece by Fred Re...

If you're interested in the current status of public education and what's entering our colleges and universities today, spend an hou...

Ran across this on Facebook: I have news for you, son: The last several elections have been insults to our intelligence. Back in 20...

SF blending: I like the cut of this man's jib!

Saw this over at Facebook:

Never thought I'd be quoting Woody , but: More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despai...

I posted this last year. Here it is updated. On this day at 02:56 UTC 47 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to leav...

Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams is often an interesting thinker (see his recent post on gun control ).  Yesterday he opined on FBI Director ...

It has been said that Western societies are "high-trust" societies, that is, members of these societies trust their fellow citizen...

After the last couple of posts, I need one of these even if you don't: (click to embiggen) Congratulations to the Juno team for a...

Today they just admitted it out loud.