Browsing the CD bin at my public library today, I was pleased to see a drawer marked “Sacred.”  Their definition of “sacred music,” however, turns out to be different from mine.

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All your radioactive decays are belong to me! Muaghhhhhhhhhh!

Inspired by the House’s cap and trade bill, I would like to propose the following legislation: (more…)

A recent comment here led me to a blog that I will not honor with a link, lest I be responsible for helping profane that which is sacred. (more…)

“Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits.”

I think that’s an unwarranted insult to misfit creeps like myself.

Otherwise, Stein hits the nail on the head.

It’s a flute.

I would not have guessed our most distant ancestors were so delicate in their tastes.

Our friend Matsby can’t stop thinking about time travel.  He runs the premier blog resource on the subject, T Equals Time.  Check it.

What, one wonders, is this “health care” that our American cousins bruit about so much? Something to do with loony doctors?

In demography, it matters not just how many kids you have, but when you have them.

"That's a knife."

I admire their unwillingness to suffer those who are unclear on the concept:

“You need a weapon,” he said. “I have to fear for my life. You can’t just have the money.”

From an article at USA Today:
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The Rev. Tim Vakoc once told his sister that the safest place for him to be was in the center of God’s will.

“If that is in the line of fire, that is where I will be,” he had said.

MAJ H. Timothy Vakoc, RIP

I came across this ancestor to “LOL” in the most recent K9YA Telegraph (free subscription), taken from the Chicago Daily Tribune of November 17, 1938.

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One of the most malign of modern trends is the disappearance of men from the ranks of public school teachers and the decline in the number of woman teachers who wield a ruler. I got a testimony of this recently. (more…)

Neanderthal Tartare.

From AL Daily.