Turonistan

Started at the eastern end and worked my way west, then returned. A 14-mile round trip. Very hilly; about 1200 feet of elevation at the east...

This time it's Israel. A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be ...

He got hired this summer (actual paycheck!) to write and appear in a made-for-web comedy sketch show aimed at middle-schoolers. He'll be...

...can take you by surprise if you, like me, haven't been paying attention for awhile. Take last night. I hosted a group of six college ...

“The last two years have been a disaster for us,” said Representative Carolyn McCarthy, a New York Democrat and a longtime advocate of incre...

So I'm not complaining about the heat.

The New England Journal Of Medicine has just published another article on gun shows ("criminogenic pumps", according to the abstra...

From a wide-ranging discussion of the Second Amendment, McDonald, Sotomayor, Kagan, etc. on the Volokh Conspiracy: Owen H: Can any of the or...

The second book of the trilogy is as good as the first. What an unforgettable character! I want a T-Shirt that says "WWLSD?" (What...

I'm sure I'm not the first with this pun, but it's the best I could come up with. Otis McDonald and Dick Heller. Two winners. P....

There's a story in publishing that the author William Makepeace Thackeray picked up Dumas' The Count Of Monte Cristo one morning at...

A court case in Massachusetts deals with the question of what constitutes safe storage of a handgun. The cops charge a guy because his Glock...

Electric cars are so quiet that blind pedestrians could unwittingly step into the path of these ultra-quiet cars, such as the Nissan Leaf. S...

A new nationwide poll finds that: Large majorities of Americans feel that they should be allowed to have guns. At the same time, pluralities...

Robert Wone Ripped from the sordid pages of the Washington Post: From the beginning, this has been the most unusual of cases because no one ...

Or Aaron, or Philip, or Alan. Tough call. What would Heston do? And what next? It's a slippery slope. License journalists? Not many have...

There's a meme rattling around, "What reading matter is in your bathroom?" Here's an actual photograph:

Bow Wow Wow, Flock Of Seagulls, Barry McGuire, Chantays, Chumba Wumba, OXO, Haddaway, Frankie Goes To Hollywood (saw them in concert!), AHA ...

During a bicycle ride this afternoon, a brief thunderstorm appeared. It's two miles to the nearest mailbox. Fog-shrouded Skyline Drive. ...

My new home is on four acres in Warren County, Virginia. There are a few neighbors, but their houses are hundreds of yards away, hidden by l...