Unbeknownst to most folks, when the NAR and DOJ settled their lawsuit, home sellers came out the winners. It was recognized by both parties that homeowners have certain rights with respect to how and where their homes are listed, or not listed, for sale on the internet and MLS. See NAR-DOJ Settlemen...

I did not comment on the nomination of Charles Freeman to become Chairman of the National Intelligence Council. AIPAC and other Jewish groups opposed him because he dared to state the obvious: Israel mistreatment of the Palestinians blocks peace in the Middle East. Freeman has withdrawn, but at leas...

E ach year, Sunday of Orthodoxy Vespers is hosted by a different parish in the Houston area; this year: Holy Forty Martyrs Mission in Sugar Land. Hairy, here, is Fr John Whiteford; thinnin' and bespecaled is moi; Fr Florin Craioveanu follows. Wait! That priest looks Early! New to the Houston area, F...

Can we use the word conspiracy ("to breathe together") to describe the following? Perhaps we can, if we grant the word a little elasticity of definition, and if we grant that this particular conspiracy is rather more benign than are some others that have been posited. Make your own call... The vast ...

Christian music, publishing, and media has produced a culture of young Christians who know next to nothing about their own faith except how they feel about it. from this article Michael Spencer is known to bloggers as the Internet Monk...

Filed under: Audio/Video, iPod For some reason, whenever gadgetry and smiling cross paths, things tend to get a little creepy. Where the smile trainer was mostly a curiosity, the Orwellian implications of the Okao Catch technology were a bit much -- even for the hardened tech blogger. Sure, the Mimi...

Nationalization. Lots of people embrace the concept -- unfortunately, Barack Obama is not among them. He considers the idea of nationalizing the too-big-to-fail banks to be "simplistic." But is it not possible for a course of action to be both complex and foolish? Here's "Nationalization for Beginne...

We just came across this video showing the Linpus Linux Lite OS in action. Aimed squarely at netbooks and the Splashtop crowd, the operating system comes to life pretty quickly on the pictured Acer Aspire One. Unlike Splashtop, however, this isn't part of the BIOS, "just a very very minimal customiz...

Filed under: Aftermarket, Tuners, Coupes, Sedans/Saloons, Etc., GM Click above for a hi-res gallery of the DiMora Scattare We like big butts, but we cannot lie - there is a limit a to our love. And the vehicle above has crossed over said limit, knocking a few things over with its ghetto booty while ...

A lot of "buzz" has been going on about Skittles "homepage redesign" For those of you who've been spared from the tempest in a teapot, essentially Skittles decided to go all Modernista! (an agency that made Wikipedia their homepage; irked Wikipedia purists and as you can see,...