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JayG tagged me on Facebook for an iPod exercise, basically seeing what shows up when you page through your playlist (pressing "Next...

It's beginning to take form, and it's as easy to see as A-B-C. "A" is for Apathy Just like the Republican base was demoral...

President Obama gave a speech to the nation about the Gulf oil spill last night. It's been widely panned in the blogosphere, and even b...

To write about which books were in the Chez Borepatch Throne Room : So. What reading material is lying around your bathroom? I’m tagging J...

Via Aretae, I find myself pulled by the gravitational (gravitas?) field into Foseti, which offers a cornucopia for the thinking blogger. Fo...

My Ancestors Were Horse Thieves has it for you: ARSENAL - Any number of weapons higher than one according to the MSM ... LOOPHOLE - Someth...

Dialed up to eleven: Nice view. But what's that sound? The lighthouse at La Jument (at the westernmost point in the English Channel) i...

Government Subsidies : The [UK] Government pays an indirect subsidy, a “renewable obligation”, or RO – and putting up a wind turbine is ...

Remember the "Scientific Consensus"? How the IPCC said that 2,500 scientists were behind its conclusions? Remember the ad? Nazz...

There's so much smart packed into this post that it's in danger of collapsing into a Black Hole of Smart: Foseti said: the root of ...

Ken Anderson at Volokh looks at the reaction of one of the pre-eminent European Philosophers to the debt crisis and the threat to the euro....

Really loud at home, and I'm at a new job, and it's even busier than a new job usually is. I'll do my best (I have tons of blog ...

Don emails to point out an article examining an astonishing statement from NOAA , the US Weather service: The following remarkable statemen...

This one is about the "felons should lose their right to possess firearms" bit. Eugene Volokh finds teh crazy in the Michigan st...

Mycroft Holmes 4 describes himself as an "engineer disturbed by the lack of rational thought in modern society." Can't reall...

In fact, they saw that he was so greatly affected that for several months in succession he cut neither his beard nor his hair, and sometime...

This is getting out of hand. First, RobertaX writes to tell us of the dude in China who's shooting at the eviction crew with a home mad...

Roy Roger's six shooters are being auctioned , and so cowboys everywhere are sitting up. When you think cowboy music you think of Roy,...

For the blog, not for me (like it'll help me anyway). Blogger has some new templates, and I've hated all the blank space on the le...

Everybody's favorite Republican Senator (Climate Change subdivision) was South Carolina's Lindsay Graham. He was one of the co-spon...