Borepatch

... to integrate the University of Massachusetts . I mean, you can't expect those sorts of people to do it without the full force of t...

Jack loved snowballs.  More accurately, Jack loved chasing snowballs.  Winters in Maine gave him a lot of opportunity for this most favorit...

LOLcats style. Leave your caption in the comments.  This was Boris and Natasha, in 1989. UPDATE 17 June 2011 18:59: We have a winner, ...

Whoops : The paper, published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics focused on the period 1844-1960 (but extended a...

The Escapist : Unskippable : Star Wars The Old Republic You're welcome.  Via #2 Son, who deserves the thanks.  The Snark is strong in...

This is my shocked face : Returning now to the original lead to the IPCC Press Release on renewables: Close to 80 percent of the world‘s e...

Southern Belle is channeling her inner community organizer .  If anyone's in the area, it would be fun to meet up.

Really : Flares Into Darkness finds a Russian site that has insanely detailed miniature replicas.

Lots of folks are commenting on the recent blockbuster announcement that solar activity is dropping off a cliff and we may be headed in...

... that White Male Patriarchal politicians would threaten to "smack around" "uppity" women. And they were right! Th...

It's Wednesday, which means it's time to mock the First Ego, who knows everything you can learn in a book and nothing that you learn...

Holy cow : We’re one lesbian away from a bona fide Fleet Street “trend”. Further to yesterday’s post , a lesbian blogger who helped unmask...

Will every one of you who ever called Sarah Palin "dumb" please shut up and sit down in the back of the room?  Grownups are talkin...

Lone Star Parson has an answer.

Jennifer asks how we became gun nuts.  I don't think I am a gun nut. I'm a freedom nut. I'm one of those people whose minds...

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and...

Some stories are timeless, and are refreshed each generation as new art forms emerge to renew a story springing deep from the soul.  Goethe...

Not only is the world a strange place, it's stranger than we can possibly imagine.  It's a place where people dress squirrels up : ...

Shooting buddy Burt left a comment leading me to DamnYouAutocomplete , which had this stunningly appropriate entry : You see, not only is...