The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

AIDS vaccine in final testing "Twenty years after HIV geneticist Bette Korber first began tackling HIV, her hard work—some would say ...

Like parasites on the healthy discourse of the Queen's English, these awful expressions seem to be spreading amongst unoriginal office t...

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, bala...

It's not every day that you expect to be given a lesson in cojones by an actress who went on Big Brother and looks like this: But that...

So bad that in the time it took for Outlook Web Access to search for emails by one of my contacts (a feature that is only available if I use...

I liked this one a lot, particularly the mailing pets one.

...does not look bright, at least according to Gary Brecher. Over at The Exiled , Brecher (a.k.a. The War Nerd) is writing a post a day fo...

Behold, I give you the Patented Shylock Holmes Formula for How To Decide Where To Live. If you are allowed only 1 variable to determine wh...

I was at a museum today that has a garden section. I was going to walk around the garden with a friend of mine, but near the entrance a guid...

"Buffett Says Social-Networking Sites Overpriced Ahead of IPOs" Ah yes, the age-old social networking business model. 1. Build l...

A fantastic essay at the Atlantic about the extent to which wealth brings happiness, discussing survey data from very rich households in a ...

Courtesy of The Hammer, comes  Average Penis size, by country . Importantly, they distinguish between countries with self-reported data an...

Via Tim Blair comes this preposterous use of police resources : A SQUAD of specialist police swooped on over 20 karaoke dens in Sydney...

I remember clearly the first time I realised that I was definitively a generation older than the current crop of teenagers. It was when I re...

If you call your store 'Forever 21', it's a fair bet that your men's section is likely to be mainly a joke, an also-ran rema...

One of the marks of a truly great writer is that their asides contain more wisdom than most lesser authors' entire writings. Consider ...

...at a Comedy Central roasting of Donald Trump. What I love about this is that he's largely dispensing with the tradition of mainly hec...

Fill in the blanks to pick the region that this process of fiscal and political collapse is describing! "To secure his position, he an...

Let me reprise a conversation that I have frustratingly often. See if it sounds familiar: Shylock: So, where do you want to go for dinner? ...

Can there be an event more thoroughly deserving of scorn and derision than Earth Hour? This is the time when sanctimonious hairshirt poseurs...

Jerome Cardinal recently sent me this great video currently doing the rounds of this kid getting bullied who snaps and bodyslams the hell ou...

John Podhoretz on Obama's inaction on the crises in Libya, Japan and Bahrain: "We’re going on four weeks now, or more, that Barack...

It is always a good rule of thumb that when people say they want one thing and consistently do another, this should make you suspicious of w...

From The Department of Needlessly Inflammatory Yet Statistically Likely Observations: Are you a member of a fraternity? Were you once part o...

Sure, to the layman it's " Pi Day ". But to the sophisticate, it's Half Tau Day . The full Tau Day Manifesto makes ...

I've only watched about 3 minutes of the show (after seeing the Southpark episode about it), but this review is so full of win I don...

The Steyn article below hints at something that is enormously under-appreciated, which is the fact that major political and historical event...

It's good to know readers of this blog in Amherst, Virginia  have taken  my 24 carat gold advice  to heart.

Mark Steyn seems to be back to regular writing, much to the benefit of all of us. Here's his latest : "In the new budget, there...

I spent yesterday downloading the rest of the Girl Talk albums . (Incidentally, the illegal art store may be the single worst designed comme...

An old story, but a revealing one. Pamela Anderson, former 'Baywatch' star, made one of the original sex tapes.  This was when s...

-Steve Sailer #1, demonstrating wonderful note-perfect satire . -Steve Sailer #2 , with the quote of the day: "The public doesn'...

Let's face it, there aren't many of these questions. But this is one. Sting has a hit song, ' Englishman in New York '. Wi...

Apropos nothing, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Hugh Laurie holds a special place in my esteem as the 'best non-American impersonator ...

"The citizens of modern complex societies usually do not realize that we  are an anomaly of history. Throughout the several million yea...

I was sitting in a park near my apartment this morning, drinking my coffee and watching the world go by. While sitting on my bench, an old m...

I seem to be getting slack on keeping up with the latest memes the the cool kids are using . But I did like these two: As the man sa...

"Bachelorette Party". The phrase ' bachelorette ' is, as far as I can tell, the penis envy of the linguistic world. Bach...