The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

A really excellent column by David Brooks today, entitled ' The Moral Bucket List '. But if you live for external achievement, yea...

Part 1, from Junot Diaz - The Cheater's Guide to Love . If you take out the infidelity part (which, ultimately, is only a plot opener fo...

The number of people who write interesting, nuanced pieces on Islam is shockingly low. Either all Muslims are crazy, or all Muslims are pea...

"Thus, posterity's jest. Pre-war Europeans would never have entertained for a moment the construction of mosques from Malmö to Mar...

It always warms my heart when the mere title of an essay makes me laugh. Herein, the estimable Theodore Dalrymple, with ' Your Dad is No...

Curses on you, all you great problems! Let someone else beat his head against you, someone more stupid. Oh, just to rest there from the int...

Making this a double dose of Hal G.P. Colebatch, if there has been a better poem title than: 'Observing a thong-shod pedestrian's ...

' Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World ' It's good to see Australia get some decent representation in there.

Apropos nothing, the great Earl Scruggs, playing 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' (which he in fact wrote), the best banjo tune perhaps si...

Some excellent thoughts from the good doctor : “Do you care about the health of the planet?” is a question not quite in the class of “Hav...

' Random Street View '. All these places I've never been and never will go. Also, it reminds you how despite the fact that if yo...

Oh you dear neglected weblog, I have been most remiss in feeding you of late. As the blog equivalent of a tasty but not very nutritious ch...

From James Mickens, dubbed ' the funniest man in Microsoft Research ', which you might think is a backhanded compliment, but is actu...

-Things that make me want to learn computer science - a visual depiction of different sorting algorithms -Genius! -An awesome SMB...

The Mask The face behind the mask: "Excess ain't rebellion, You're drinking what they're selling. Your self-destr...

You know how sometimes you just don't seem to have any anything to contribute? I mean, I'd seen these billboards about ' No Kill...

From a reddit post recently: Just remember, ignorance of the EU's 26,911 word missive on the sale of cabbage is no excuse! David F...

Steve Sailer links to this fantastic New Yorker comic: Ouch! Please report to the burn unit of the hopsital! This hits so many outrage...

A sad but sweet comic from SMBC . Brave Zack Weiner! That was drawing! Good alike at grave and gay!

As a tribute to the dying hours of the National Holiday over here, everyone who hasn't yet read it should read the great Thomas Hutchins...