Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results. But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot. It happened first some ten years ago and grew
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Slate’s David Plotz blogs 1Kings 22: [T]he last prophet, Micaiah, warns Ahab that the other prophetical advice is flawed and that he will die taking the town. Ahab ignores the caution, instead
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Part of a series of history books that belong in every American’s library. Recommendations welcome. Albert Castel was recognized as one the America’s finest Civil War Historians. The Wichita native authored biographies
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Joy Reid’s not getting her participation trophy, after more homophobic* blog posts come to light: The LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG National has rescinded Joy Ann Reid’s allyship award in light of Mediaite‘s
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Newt Gingrich worries about the night the lights go out in Georgia: Within a year, nine out of 10 Americans could be dead.* And whatever causes the national apocalypse—be it North Korean
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then we have a controversial new theory concerning the Shroud of Turin: As [Thomas] de Wesselow is quick to admit, this idea is only a hypothesis. No one has tested whether a
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Michael Alexander looks around and notices that the snow’s not only gone, it never arrived… The last seven decades have shown what appears to be another price revolution. The regular pattern of
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JQ wonders via email if I’m talking my book: What if you’re wrong? You say certain trends can’t continue much longer but what if they do? What if the dollar keeps getting
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when NATO memes 4Chan: …if the most powerful political-military alliance has the real battlefield on lockdown, some worry it’s floundering in the battlefield of the internet, where ideas go to clash, Kremlin
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New York City chooses pretension over fact: New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has announced that prisoners in the city will be housed according to the gender with which they identify instead
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A dozen sounds about right: KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Clusters of stars on the fringes of our Milky Way galaxy may be home to intelligent life. That’s that word from an astrophysicist
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