Time for the semi-annual call to contribute! Do this The best way to ensure the continued existence of this backwater block is to pass on articles that you like, or even loathe, […]

As the world continues its slow but accelerating burn, the fallen bodies greasing the slide in Hell, we may as well have a bit of fun. Your task is create the coolest […]

Summer is over This is the end The ring-necked plover Is back in his bed The lake is still warm The water yet inviting But it’s not good form And it’s no […]

All Doom and no sunshine makes Jack a dull boy. Even in decline a culture has bright spots. I’ll start: God willing, tomorrow I will polkaing like a madman. Your good news? […]

You guys knew you were in good company, but what you didn’t know until today was that you were in the presence of celebrity. I am pleased—nay, thrilled—to announce that I am […]

Apparently this is what they call a treatment, or a partial script, and only goes to the end of Act I. I am sworn to keep secret how I came by it. […]

It is a slow Friday, and many of us, as we should be, are off the internets and at the lakeside or park. Yesterday we had thoughts of the country, its past […]

Hire Me The government doesn’t have a monopoly on research funding. But if you add in the funds of so-called non-governmental organizations—which, as has been noted, announce by their name that they […]