Rhyme Of The Day

I heard Alex Kozinski talk a couple of times in the last 2 days. He's a fairly prominent federal appeals judge. Today he gave a speech h...

I heard official rumors today about the next and sort-of-final installment of the Atlas Shrugged movie series. The most intriguing one, to m...

I committed 2 accidental rhymes today that sounded too normal. Senator Ron Johnson represents Wisconsin. I'm really weak on Ancient Gree...

We're here in our nation's capital. The visual shock of the trip, for me, was seeing that they've put scaffolding around the Wa...

Crazy, and unfortunately far from lazy, ants from Argentina have invaded the southern U.S. Researchers at Texas A&M believe the...

Thanks, MRB, for alerting me to this. Americans who have trouble dividing 300 by 2 are much more likely to end up in foreclosure than con...

See that bright light? That's a transformer lighting up the sky after a branch fell on it. It made noises like gunshots, pulsed and s...

One of the readings at my daughter's wedding was a poem of mine. I didn't originally recommend it, but then my wife said I should m...

My daughter Felicia is getting married today. In several hours I will walk her down the aisle. It's a joyful occasion. She is taking vow...

Tyler Cowen, re: the Greek economic/political mess, offers a more general observation: Many deconversions from religion, or from fandom, ...

The head of the FBI said today that domestic drone use is minimal. I feel oddly un-reassured. I think we should use drones more actually. I ...

Many a ship has been wrecked from cumulative effect.

It's funny how data-mining  means my data isn't mine.  There must be a silver lining,  but it's somewhere down the line.

I was bicycling today, in a former golf course, which is being remodeled as a park, when I came across this bird, who was making a ruckus ...

You frequently read, nowadays, even in government publications, here and there, that it is illegal to ask a certain question in a certain si...

My iPhone malfunctioned yesterday. It seemed like the little socket, where you stick the charging cord, wasn't working. I tried another ...

It's hard to keep a handle  on any given scandal  when it seems like every day  brings another one my way

Supremes rule that we can't patent pre-existing genetic material. Allowing a company to tie up the building blocks of nature "wou...

I should reread that play and try to puzzle out why it's built that way and what it was about. There was no planning staff, no sch...

It's hard to keep a handle  on any given scandal  when it seems like every day  brings another one my way.