Heh . Liberal: A person who should be rounded up and shot but not really. Marxism: A political and economic philosophy developed by Karl...

Kevin Drum at Mother Jones sums up 6 fundamental lies about the economy that are demonstrably false. I'll force you to click on the...

Based on what I'm seeing in this video with Google's driverless car program, we should see the first self-driving cars in showrooms ...

Sometimes, you get an idea in your head that you cannot quite put into words. Then I read the " Open Letter To That 53% Guy ", an...

John Stewart has some more fun, showing endless clips of Republican politicians urging Americans to "take to the streets", to ...

It does not get any worse or impressive than this. Prayers to the family of British driver Dan Wheldon who died.

1980 to 2011, natural disasters in the United States Red - seismologic (earthquakes / volcano) Green - meteorologic (storms / blizzards...

The U.S. Ambassador to The Philippines rubbed his host country the wrong way when he cited the statistic, "40% of male tourists come t...

I finally figured out why the Republicans are trying to roll back banking regulations to the way the regulations were right before the banki...

Epril's visa package is now in the American Embassy in Manila, and they have contacted her with the date for her interview:  November 8t...

John Stewart pieces together how Sarah Palin scammed lots of people: SarahPAC, which is in essence, Sarah Palin herself, sent out a mailer ...

My friend Mike recently was extolling the "best liqueur in the world", an herb-infused scotch called "Glayva". Being...

There are Thai minds that really function at this level , especially male Thai minds, especially when drunk — which is often. Thai man kil...

America's 25 most dangerous cities (highest violent crime per capita): Flint, MI. Detroit, MI. St. Louis, MO. New Haven, CT. Memp...

Presidential candidate Rick Perry is getting a lot of heat for having had a ranch (inherited from his father, name changed decades ago) call...

Conservative pundits were having fits last month after they (mis)read Michelle Obama's lips at a September 11 Memorial event, and claim...

Google Maps now has "fly-by" mode as part of its "get directions". Step 1: Go to Google Maps Step 2: Select "...

Some good points have been made regarding two recent "wins" against terrorism that made me stop and think. First, the "death...

How to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds. This works so well I almost think they are playing a joke on us. I'm makin...

Find one thing to do, and do it better than anybody else.

Blogger redesigned the entire appearance of its blog publishing software. I suspect my mother will have a fit trying to get used to it. Be...

Seriously . It is not often that one of the fundamental laws of the universe as we know it is broken. While studying neutrino oscillations ...

Surprisingly, spending more money on education is not the most important thing, according to the Economist . The main conclusion of the art...

How about the man who literally defines himself by his take-no-prisoners, budge-not-an-inch, stick-to-the-guns approach to policy making wri...

It's true, ya know. In the first September 6th Republican Presidential Primary Debate, the crowd of Republican supporters gave the big...

I just adore the look of this car, the Fisker Karma , a hybrid sedan (similar to the Nissan Leaf in that the only thing the gasoline engine ...

Watch in order. These kids take a while to get their trick right... but when they do...

I promised you video of me playing piano, and here it is. Sorry about the sound quality. First generation electronic piano, little microph...

When a nobel-prize winning economist comes on and says, in effect, "There it is. That was the bad sign that we've been waiting for...

It's been terrible weather here in Florida: Rain and clouds almost all day, every day, since I got back from New York. Uncle Bob says ...

This will provide you with half a dozen smiles at least .

I was out at the beach, wading back to shore in about navel-deep water. About 20 feet in front of me closer to the beach was a dark patch o...

The vocally anti-gay Republican Senator from Puerto Rico just resigned from office after he put a photo of his culo (his actual culo... not ...

It's been a hectic 2 months, to put it mildly. Then I threw in a trip to New York to visit my family on top of it. About the biggest...

I'm back in Florida now, having flown right past the hurricane as it was making landfall in North Carolina. I'm going to go out...

My sister and her son Vincent and daughter Evie enjoying the pool at Watkins Glen State Park. Evie having fun out on the grass in the b...

25 years ago... ... and I haven't changed a bit.

For some reason, this chart does not include the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit that President Bush added on as well, which was $1.2 tri...

With life being as slow and uneventful (yet hectic — but not worth writing about) as it is, little moments in time don't get written abo...

About time: If you publish a blatant lie about a candidate during a political campaign, that candidate should be able to sue you for slander...

... if you don't yet have a mastery of how to be human : This month, a group of men spotted the couple riding together in a car, yanked ...

It looks as if the Congress may have finally reached a deal with the White House (I knew that Biden would be a good Vice President, as long ...

So the Congressional Republicans are steadfastly holding the economy hostage against raising taxes on people earning over half a million dol...

Both of Epril's approved visa petitions, after being "lost in the mail" for nearly 2 months (from May 27 to July 20), finally ...

John Stewart does one thing undeniably well: He finds people making hypocritical remarks, and then strings together a bunch of examples of ...

It's uplifting to see some American teenagers that are so far beyond normal levels of genius that they enter the realm of "awe-insp...

When I'm inclined to add the disclaimer, "no special effects used", you know you're going to see some pretty frickin' ...

Andrew Sullivan strings a bunch of them together : The Republican refusal to countenance any way to raise revenues to tackle the massive deb...

Mom was wondering if I bought a Kindle. Actually no...

I have a house guest: Uncle Bob's friend from Canada, a fellow named Mark, is staying in my house for a couple of weeks. I like Mark b...

He does creepy old guy every bit as well as he does Mr. Spock.

Letmewatchthis.ch . Every movie and TV show ever, from the in-theater-/-on-TV-now variety to the classics, right in your browser, YouTube-st...

I was chatting on the phone with a friend and, while doing so, idly gliding around the United States from a satellite's vantage when I n...