Just when you think you really *know* a celebrity...
I was unaware of it: So far this year inspectors have freed more than 2,000 workers from forced labour, mostly...
I've stayed out of the flap over the Gibson's The Passion for an extraordinarily simple reason: Nobody's seen it yet....
It's all about envy, isn't it? In one striking example, students at Harvard University were asked whether they would prefer...
Houston Chronicle: The Pentagon has withdrawn most of its forces from the strategic Mideast nation of Saudi Arabia, ending a...
Some newspaper articles just deserve a good fisking. Like this one about the ten commandments...
Boy meets girl. They have sex shortly after meeting. After a month of good sex, they move in together. They have more sex. After nine months, they get engaged, then married...
Nothing much to blog about tonight, but I've got a loaf of beer bread in the oven, which reminds me of a recent story from my own life...
Remember the statistics that prove that if you own a gun, it's more likely to kill someone in your family...
Yet another medical miracle involving adult, not embryonic, stem cells.
I believe in tolerance, meaning co-existing peacefully with those who have different beliefs than yours. Today, tolerance apparently means you must never disagree with certain selected opinons, or your janitor may be beaten to a pulp!
A Dane was just sentenced to 8 days in jail for discrimination: Seems he won't serve pizza to French and...
2000: Napster is popular, music industry has record sales, yet claims it's destroying it's profit margins. 2002: P2P file sharing...
In my previous post on this subject, I reprinted the story of a group of radio workers who endeavored to...
Dear reader, The following story touched my heart, and I thought it might touch yours as well...
My last whisp of respect for Kofi vanishes with this remark, via Instapundit: "'Nobody (asks) you if you want the...
Among others, entertainment moguls like Gene Roddenbury and Stephen Spielberg like to present psychic phenomena as being "scientific", while deriding other (theistic) religious beliefs as "primitive". But what does science have to say about mind-reading? How does it work?
Japan is suffering a national recession. Why? Japanese bankers, politicans, and Yakuza (mafia) all got into bed together. Tell me character doesn't count!
I'm listening to the BBC's radio programme "Outlook". This is odd, because I realize I see the BBC on the...
Germany apparently pays out in order to set Mali hostages free: [T]hough Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said on Monday it...
Gene Roddenbury believed in a future free of religious beliefs. Well, not really. Just certain ones he didn't like.
Yesterday, I purchased the Gyration Cordless Compact Keyboard and Mouse and have been using it for a little under a...
I visited Tasmania several years ago, and heard about the 'extinction' of the Tasmanian 'tiger' -- one of the few...
The BBC is, as usual, too cute to be true. Their front page offers a link "In pictures: Blackout chaos"....
Last night, I was talking to a friend, and saying, regarding health care, that very often we had simply no...
The prevailing myth is that conservatives are rich titans of industry, the upper crust, while liberals are the poor, suffering...
Random Observations fails to provide in-depth coverage of the Great Northeastern Power Blackout. Our crack reporters fail to bring you there and tell you why!
English Anglican priests attempt to beat up a Kenyan bishop but the bishop is rescued by passers-by...
Technology doesn't eliminate stupidity. Technology just allows you to be stupid faster....
A recent study reports that creatine, a dietary supplement which occurs naturally in meats boosts brain power, at least in...
T-Shirt: Buckle Up. It Makes It Harder for the Aliens to Snatch You From Your Car. Another T-shirt: Upon the...
Sure! But what about the rest of the world?
No, not quite -- but Jewish World Review reports that life has not been boring for a Saddam Hussein lookalike!...
A reader takes me to task for calling a CNN poll "idiotic"...
Bernard Lewis, sage and much-maligned originator of the phrase "Clash of Civilizations", and author of Islam: What Went Wrong? has...
Recently, Barbara Streisand sent a fax to the city of Brookfield, Wisconsin, asking them to name a street after one of her favorite politicans...