I am not persuaded by motivated reasoning. I read the same news and hear the same media reports, yet form my own conclusions. Historically l...

Nothing stops a bad guy with a gun.   Not more guns.   Nor the NRA.   Not their stooges in Congress holding us in thrall.    Nor public out...

Scarcely a day after the San Bernardino massacre, many questions remain unanswered. Thus far,  among the 14 dead and 21 injured were clie...

Particles do escape from black holes, or so argues Steven Hawking. the phenomenon is called Hawking radiation. Things do escape beyond the ...

This Stephen Colbert video features Doug Varrieur, a rogue homeowner in Big Pine Key, Florida, whose backya...

So I was on Facebook, because I'm old and it's no longer fashionable. And I came across this post. And that sounds like a terrible...

As a side note, I honestly intended to send this out. Unfortunately, I found 6 Joshua Bostons in Kentucky, two of whom were in Louisville, a...

By (O)CT(O)PUS Years ago, I was researching delusional thoughts for a paper on psychotic disorders. Where do delusional thoughts c...

 ". . . and forgetting long-passed mischiefs, we mercifully preserve their bones and piss not on their ashes." -Thomas Browne- ...

By (O)CT(O)PUS Buffalo Bill's defunct               who used to ride a watersmooth-silver             ...

Today the National Rifle Association (NRA) finally broke its silence about the massacre of innocents and their teachers in Newtown, Connect...

Maybe now's the time.  The NRA has taken a serious body blow and in general, the American public is losing faith in the extremists of t...

The barber shop I frequent looks like something out of the old West, or at least a Hollywood version of it. Cowboy movie posters, ammunit...