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Holly contemplates the dual-income household: The problem here is that I didn't make some big feminist choice to go to work; no one gav...

A study of mitochondrial DNA a few years back stated that Neanderthals probably had not mated with our H. sap. sap. forebears. Having know...

RX: "Eric Holder's on TV, with an expression on his face like he's passing kittens." Me: " That's his default e...

Went grocery shopping with roomie this morning and then to lunch at Shalimar . Mmmm... Indian food. My right knee and lower back/hip are bot...

Unintentional funny: A publisher sticks a bit o' warning boilerplate by way of a frontispiece into older books that may not " refle...

So, as you may have heard, the Indiana GOP machine, an organization so dense that a black hole would float on it, in its infinite obtuseness...

Imagine a not-too-distant future, where a businessman gets jacked on taxes or some petty regulation or another. He makes some unkind comment...

In light of our fabulous education system, run by the same people who can't get a letter across town in a timely fashion and who have tu...

So, I made mention of the little TSA-related contretemps in Miami this morning. Stingray at Atomic Nerds then picked up the ball and ran ...

How do you throw away a trash can? Do you get bonus points if you die without ever reading a Twilight book? How about never seeing a Spider...

Security theater went from Kabuki to Punch and Judy this week in Miami, when a TSA groper-in-training got a little out of hand . It seems th...

On this date in: 1429: Jeanne d'Arc pulls an arrow from her own shoulder and charges back into the fighting, thereby earning promotion t...

Roomie's televisor has, like it does every morning, cut on at a bajillion decibels to serve her as an alarm clock... Morning Traffic Lad...

Sometimes you don't even need to click on the headline to get all you need out of the story: In addition to sand traps and water hazards...

Have you noticed emaciated figures shambling through your yard? Does the stench of the crypt pervade your neighborhood? Is your best friend ...

A Hamilton, OH police officer (ED: Oops! Misread story.) resident broke two and put a bullet through his groin . Maybe he was practicing P...

Apparently America's most famous self-loathing closeted gay man made his bones as a civil rights lawyer back in the day in Topeka. Huh....

So, Matt Lauer, morning clothes horse on NBC, is talking to some terrorism expert about the dude who tried to set off the bomb in The Only ...

I have mentioned before my weakness for stirring up a little bit of salmon salad for a snack, using honey mustard, sweet relish, mayo, and ...

Contessa Brewer was hoping that the Times Square "bomb" hadn't been planted by an Islamic terrorist for fear that it would fu...