Rhyme Of The Day

Michael Newberry ran through a brief history of the nude and its significance. Nudes can be viewed as universals imbued with individual atti...

No wonder the water here tastes funny: Two people caught skinny dipping in a Portland reservoir that is a main source of water for the city ...

Hard to say how this came up, but... Fred Seddon boldly stated we're a lot more complicated than the pond scum we evolved from.

Christopher Robinson spoke/meditated on recent research relevant to hope. He also delved into the psychological lessons of The Book Of Job....

This morning Ed Hudgins talked about "the new atheism." It was a good talk about contemporary writers. In the atheism of old God ...

Portland, Oregon is sizzling. Hot weather seems to follow this Objectivist conference around. Tomorrow morning 3 of us are doing the "...

The Chicago Tribune came out with an editorial today that was headlined: "Repeal the 2nd Amendment." The 2nd Amendment to the U.S....

Here in Chicago, the mayor is mad. He thinks the Heller decision was bad. For the force of the 2nd amendment is once again ascendant.

Yesterday I was upset with the unknown gangbanger who accidentally shot an 8 year old kid. Today our police superintendent was upset with th...

The continent rolls out before you. Walk its width unimpeded. No passport needed. If you want everyone to ignore you, that can be arranged: ...

Josue Torres, age 8, was critically wounded in a drive-by shooting yesterday in a Chicago neighborhood. As [he] was being wheeled into an op...

Did you happen to see that news story a while back about a newly discovered "uncontacted" Brazilian tribe? It featured a great ph...

Jessica Bruinsma was hiking in the Alps when she took a bad fall and got stuck on a rocky ledge. As luck would have it, she could reach a me...

I did the MetLife Duathlon this morning. You run 2 miles, you cycle 11, you run 2. As I was closing in on the finish line, I started thinki...

Purpurachicago has a picture of me grilling for the NIF party. The party was tonight, but the pic is from about 3 years ago. It shows me,...

There's a charming old Beatles' song, Blackbird , that makes the species sound so nice: Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take...

When I first saw Vero Possumus . I thought: wow, that's the awesomest. Sadly my knowledge of Latin was unclear. I expected a Virile Poss...

You expect it in Key Largo, but up here in Chicago, there's really no excuse for a gator on the loose. One showed up in our river today:...

He whose-middle-name-shall-not-be-said has broken a pledge: The Democrat once made a conditional agreement to accept taxpayer money from the...

Senator Dodd, head of the Senate Banking Committee, was the number one recipient of campaign contributions from Countrywide Financial. He g...