Rhyme Of The Day

These dogs were loose in the neighborhood today. Apparently they were spotted as early as 3am. Various people were freaking out about them...

There's a riddle going around Facebook, and the gimmick is that if you cannot answer correctly you put a giraffe photo for your profile ...

Odd timing: "Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is now in custody in federal prison in North Carolina Tuesday morning after some in...

NBC has investigated and learned that millions of people will not be able to keep their health plans. Despite the prez saying over and over...

There's that word again: "Company hosting Obamacare data has technical glitch: U.S. official" Always with the "glitch...

I've been amused by the way politicians posture as providers of technical services, promising Government 2.0 and whatever, trying to mak...

The Chicago White Sox took their name from an old name of the Cubs . Yes, the Cubs were, at first, known as the Chicago White Stockings . ...

I went to see the creepy new Halloween show from Dream Theatre . It's half play, half horror show. If you choose, you get to be one of t...

We tied the record today for amount of snow. Technically. Because the amount of snow was "a trace" - and that's all that has...

I see that Google is informing me that it's the 216th anniversary of the first parachute jump. I wonder if that's the first succes...

I remember O'Brien & O'Brian as "writing itself", and I remembered it a doing so rather quickly. But just now I review...

Wikipedia, on computer glitches: "In public declarations, glitch is used to suggest a minor fault which will soon be rectified and is...

Though I gave blood Thursday, and though I ran a marathon last Saturday, I ventured forth and ran a 5K today. I did this because the race wa...

I'm fascinated by the I.T. wreck that is Healthcare.gov. Those who know me, know that I have a sick fascination with disasters that seem...

I've got a feeling - about the debt ceiling. Let's raise it as high - as the top of the sky. We've just got to get - lots deeper...

I gave a pint of red. In other words, I bled.  Soon, they say, it will go - into some body who's one pint low. 

Tyler Cowen cites a study showing that quality of care, in a given hospital, seems to vary with what kind of insurance a patient has. Patien...

Government is just a name  for what we do together. So, at least, I've heard it claimed. But, boy, it's hit rough weather.

The moon peeks out, her face half-veiled, between catalpa limbs, expecting soon to be regaled - with happy harvest hymns.

I had tried to run the Prairie State Marathon a few years ago. I remember it was a warm sunny day. And the course has this peculiarity - at ...