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I was talking to a woman recently who reminded me of the title character  Maude , from the 1972-1978 TV series. Bea Arthur starred as the im...

In a NY Times article today titled  On Purposeful Paths  (the online version has a different headline), actress and activist Susan Sarandon ...

A commenter wrote such a good description of a sociopath after the previous post that it deserves a post of its own:  My mother was, very ...

A Canadian serial killer, Melissa Ann Shepard,  was just released from prison this past Wednesday . Evidently she's served her sentence,...

There's been a lot of publicity recently over whether Donald Trump has encouraged violence at his rallies. My take is that the violence ...

Steve Sailer nailed it, as usual, in his post this morning . While writing about how Trump is remapping the political dividing lines, he sai...

It was announced today that actor George Kennedy died on Sunday morning: Kennedy was probably most famous for his role in Cool Hand Luk...

….and Trump's rivals have gotten desperate. Ted Cruz has said that Trump has ties to the Mafia because he did business with S&A Cons...

Has there ever been a better advertisement for energy drinks? Red Bull, Rockstar, and Monster couldn't have paid for this kind of pu...

On Friday, the New York Times ran an article on who holds the power in this country. In their words: We reviewed 503 of the most powerful...

There's been a fair amount of publicity about how the functionaries in the Republican Party dislike and fear Trump. But why, exactly? ...

There's been a fair amount of publicity recently about the Cruz campaign's dirty tricks. There was the well-publicized incident wher...

We got a new Cairn Terrier to replace the old one . (The new one is dark, which makes him the spitting image of Toto.) My wife was away this...

I got the following email from a friend yesterday (I've changed the name):   Do you know Kathy Smith? We are friends of Jim (her h...

My son just sent me this list of quotes from Time Enough For Love , my favorite Heinlein book, which was first published in 1973. What'...

My son and I were in the left lane of the Cross Bronx Expressway the other day when a police car came up behind us, lights flashing. I moved...

I'm not a football fan, but I watched a little bit of the Super Bowl two nights ago just because I'd read a little bit about Cam New...

It was painful to watch Marco Rubio come unglued during the Republican debate last night. The first time he said, "Let's dispel onc...

Yesterday's post describing the behavior of various serial killers included a fairly graphic description of Edmund Kemper's crimes. ...

This past Friday's post on fashion  identified some of the "models" only by their first names. Read that first, then see how m...