Halfway There

Your right to urban legends My niece “Becky” has learned her lesson and no longer forwards so-called inspirational messages to me. It's...

Checking out An Inconvenient Truth I have now seen An Inconvenient Truth the movie featuring former Vice President Albert Gore. When he dis...

An overheard conversation “He was giving me a bad time, so I put a curse on him. Later that same day he was terminated. Fired. Tell me that ...

First you take a 2 × 4 ... Like any ecosystem, the blogosphere is inhabited by a wide variety of species, each highly adapted to its own spe...

His mysterious ways Colorado state legislator Ted Harvey is a “pro-life hero” according to Barbara McGuigan , the host of the anti-abortion ...

It's Skeptics' Circle #37 Never mind the sea foam, the spinning magnetic compass needles, and the amphibious UFOs. It's the 37 t...

Erased from history David's been gone for about fifty years. Sorry, but I can't even give you accurate numbers. About fifty years is...

June 17, 2006: Uploading pictures continues to be a hit-or-miss thing with Blogger, at least when I'm using Internet Explorer as my brow...

A quagmire revisited It was spring semester in 1971. I was sitting in the college library reading newspapers. After scanning Herb Caen's...

Halfway There included in #71 The school term is at an end, summer vacation (or summer school!) is imminent, and the faculty is getting ant...

Rule 11: 1 through 10 don't matter There must be a gene for archivism . I think I have it, no doubt inherited from my father. He has a b...

Procrustean proportion in The Da Vinci Code Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed...

Now it's truthiness ! The right-wing extremists think we're idiots. Well, Bush is still president, so I suppose they have a point. N...

More fun with sparse data Political pundit William Safire defined “ thumbsucker ” in Safire's Political Dictionary as a “political re...