BoingBoing never ceases to amaze me. Today they posted a link to a news story that makes me wonder, "what is the most ridiculous expla...

The best interviews—like the best biographies—should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. Lynn Barber. British journalist I s...

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than ...

More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we hav...

A new line of Hallmark greeting cards that borders on parodies seen on SNL and other venues in years past: Journeys. With lines like "N...

Be good and you will be lonesome. Mark Twain (1835–1910), author Another quirky news item courtesy of the Wall Street Journal e-mail Still ...

The Los Angeles Zoo reportedly paid $4,500 to a feng shui expert to make sure that some monkeys on loan from China have a strong life force....

The wife and I were guests at this weekend's gala ball at the California Science Center in Los Angeles... I've got a Flickr set here...

Harvard has announced that it will soon have its first female president and, frankly, I'm just embarassed. The mysoginistic attitudes t...

And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind. Elton John, musician, "Candle in the Wind" (song, lyrics by Bern...

I know that Joe Lieberman isn't really Max Wright in his best role since Alf ... but they do sound eerily familiar. Click Joe below a...

To the moon, Alice, to the moon! Jackie Gleason (1916 -- ’87) as Ralph Kramden to his wife Alice Enough with the woman astronaut! It’s certa...

I was pleased to hear that Texas Governor Rick Perry issued an executive order making the Lone Star State the first of the fifty to require ...

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. John F. Kennedy (1917–63), U.S. president I just...

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. … This is one of the disadvantages of ...

We got no-necked oilmen from Texas And good ol' boys from Tennessee And colleges men from LSU Went in dumb - come out dumb too Hustlin...

History … is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon (1737–94), English his...

For one tyrant, there a thousand ready slaves. Man is naturally a worshipper of idols and a lover of kings. William Hazlitt (1778-1830), wri...