UPDATE: The organizers of the Voters Values Summit shut down the vendors of the product below and sent them packing, according to Christian...

There are numerous reports about gasoline supplies in Tennessee and other southern states , wildly divergent prices and accounts of the why ...

UPDATE : WATE-TV notes that it is up to individuals to report price gouging, and then that complaint gets passed on and on -- " To fil...

Between Hurricane Gustave and the current storm, Hurricane Ike, gasoline prices are passing the $4 mark (again) and many outlets are running...

I took it on myself to watch some new/returning television shows, despite the risk of being exposed to The Awfulness. The good news is a co...

With reports showing a declining score from SAT tests, it isn't really surprising that the SAT creators are finding new ways to prep st...

"when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" It's both fascinating and a little sickening to see news reporters and their d...

I notice the odd ones, of course. Here is a sample of some recent searches which brought readers to this humble page: Repellent for Porky Pi...

Virginia got a chance to hear facts and plans from Senator Obama yesterday : " Obama devoted most of his remarks to spelling out the d...

Odd crimes are plentiful. And yes, often crime is odd at it's very core. Still, imagine waking to an intruder in your home, an intruder ...

Politics has always, always been a landscape dominated by the surreal. A centuries old tactic relies on repeating blatant lies until they sh...

It isn't a science fiction story, it just sounds like one. Scientists will fire up a massive particle accelerator on Wednesday aiming to...

The presidential campaign being waged by Sen. John McCain isn't just scraping bottom - it is digging through the bottom in search of new...

A roundup of bloggers in Tennessee has several perspectives on the "unavailable to the press for interviews" candidate and Queen o...

I heard rumblings about the movie "J.C.V.D." a few months back - b-movie action guy Jean Claude Van Damme stars in a wildly satiri...

Scientists are hard at work creating brains which can power computers, projects using rat and cat brains as the bio-electronic basis. The Pe...

One might be tempted to fact check the Republicans at their convention this week, but they haven't offered any. Like whole-cloth fabric ...

The state is creating a whole new fee system for anyone who seeks access to public records, and even though the public can offer comments on...

I only know of a couple of British bloggers, and one of them is the Vol Abroad , so I'd have to defer to her on the state of British blo...

Ah, 1976. The first Cray supercomputer was presented, Steve Jobs formed the Apple Computer corporation, President Ford was a failing (and of...