In the room, the women come and go Talking of Michaelangelo Now is the winter of my discontent made grievously disgusting by the endl...

Troll infections seem to come in clusters. Often frustrated trolls will assume multiple identities so that they can get in another word befo...

By Capt. Fogg Well folks, here it is again. The doomsday circus is back in town and guess what's happening in the big top in less than...

By Capt. Fogg There are people who give Free Speech a bad name; people who use any freedom the government protects to undermine and destabil...

Prophets are always disappointed dear Nostradamus. That's why new ones are always in the wings updating the catastrophes -Andre Codrescu...

Yes, those were the days Archie and Edith Bunker sang about and the man who led us from market crash and credit crunch into full blown dep...

So Stephen Hawking tells us there may be a nearly infinite number of universes. I had to wake up in this one, this morning. Illegal immig...

"The wheels of commerce are greased with bullshit" I don't know who first said it, but it's been passed down in my famil...

The people who hate government, who talk as though we would become something like noble savages in its absence, who insist that all we need...

So now it's "Obama's Mosque" and why the hell not, since there appears to be no bottom at the deep end. All the hysteria...

Ted Nugent; where do I begin? Where does it end? Obama is not only spitting on the constitution, but the Ten Commandments and the Golden Ru...

But, oh! for Absalom,-- For his estranged, misguided Absalom,-- -Nathaniel Parker Willis- What ...

Nothing is true, all things are permitted - Hassan i Sabah - No, I didn't watch the State of the Union Address Wednesday and I haven&#...

As you may have noticed, I'm ambivalent about global warming and reluctant to argue for or against it. Whether or not it's an ongoin...

O k, I give up. It's impossible to win an argument with someone as totally dishonest as Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck or as stupid as their ...

R epublicans deal with the almost daily revelations of sexual scandal in the "family Values" party by reminding us that there are ...

. . . But a twitter. An e-mail from my Senator Bill Nelson (D. FL) informs me today that he will begin twittering and NASA has announced t...

Sometimes I'm overwhelmed with despair. Sometimes I don't believe the United States of America has any future in any way similar to...

There's often some good to be found in our increasingly entropic economy -- like a pearl in a tainted oyster. I take comfort in the cosm...