Before I tell this particular story from my vacation, a few bits of context.   First up, in person, I’m rarely like I am when I’m posting. I have …

Assad's Government Sponsored Goons attempt to storm U. S. Embassy in Syria, FAIL.

Several months ago, Peter David announced on his blog that he had been hired to write the novelization of the third Transformers movie. Now I’m a fan of his …

Lex Communis comments on this New York Times piece titled “Somehow, the Unemployed Became Invisible”: It’s a mystery that media sources like the New York Time would for the …

President Obama, playing the role of Lucy, is mystified by his reticence.

This week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was our first on the new site and with the new comment system. Turnout was a little lower than normal, but still very respectable …

Last week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another hit. Unfortunately it got caught up in our site migration. The assignment last week was to caption the following picture: Here are …

I’m writing this posting while riding the infamous Maryland MTA train. It’s a light rail, the kind of public transportation that we keep being told that we need. My …

An interesting piece up at Newsweek: ‘I believe that I can win a national election,’ Sarah Palin declared one recent evening, sitting in the private dining room of a …

Everyone has their own vision of the American Dream but to me it’s the notion that any man with a good idea who’s willing to work hard can be …