Curious goings on in California - could it be the reason for our own (O)CT(O)PUS' absence? This innocent looking female octopus manage...

Obama's Iraq withdrawal speech today was excellent - his best speech in awhile. In case you missed it, here are the main points: an end...

"Now isn't that typical" -The Church Lady- There are always stories in the local paper that make me rant and rave philosophic...

Your faithful 8pus will be away for two to three weeks. Please do not think I am abandoning, ignoring, or neglecting you. I will be workin...

We can see that Bobby Jindal likes to talk as though his audience were all preschoolers and wear ties he borrowed from Bozo the Clown, but d...

Stories like this one are what we should be seeing on the nightly news instead of which celeb is gaining weight, losing weight, doing drugs,...

I just don't know any more and perhaps soon enough I just won't care. I got cornered by a woman at my club last night who went on an...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sees 2010 recovery "only if" markets and banks stabilize, says Bloomberg.com . I see prospe...

Here are results from the latest Global Gender Gap Report complied by the World Economic Forum.  Specifically, the Report measures the gende...

"The makers of the Constitution conferred the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by all civilized men—the right to ...