Robotics, Education, FIRST Juha-Pekka Tikka wrote: Most of the teams that gathered at the San Diego Sports Arena last week came from the American Southwest—from places like Flagstaff, AZ, and El Centro, CA. One team came all the way from Pennsylvania. Another came from Brazil. But these teams ...

1The Obammesiah is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He maketh me lie down in green pastures,whilst the rich payest taxes, 3 he restoreth the balance of my welfare debit card.He guideth me in the paths of the line in the unemployment office,for his agenda's sake. 4 Even though I walk through th...

(But of course, I think most of us already knew that.) I was listening to Mr. M. today; in his first segment, he examined the phenomenon of blacks as monkeys... well, to be fair, the phenomenon of blacks claiming that any reference to monkeys or apes -- no matter how far removed from racial consider...

I was quite heartened to hear that the illegal muckety-mucks from Mexico were unsuccessful in their lawsuit against a south-Texas rancher who allegedly held them under gunpoint until the border patrol could pick them up. Quite, heartened, until I read this: MALDEF and its attorneys lost track of thr...

Doctor Anonymous, who is an actual doctor, but chooses to remain anonymous (don't we all?) gives us his thoughts on the new Obamacare provision in the socialist shit sandwich stimulus bill being debated in Hell Congress.......

Remember, the little girl in Poltergeist II, who, staring at a snowy TV screen, turned around and said, "They're baaaaack!" And let's not forget Jack the Nick, breaking through the bathroom door with an axe, as he proudly proclaimed in a terrifying voice, "Heeere's Johnnyyyy!" in the classic horror ...

Chicago style politics, identify those who oppose them and expose them. To hell with the 1st amendment. I thought crap like this only happened in Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, etc. Via InstapunditFix Wilson Yard, the grassroots community organization that claims......

"Republican" Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City -- he was a Democrat until he decided the Democratic ticket was too crowded for his mayoral run, so he switched to have the nomination to himself -- now presides over a staggering budget deficit: Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially announced Frida...

John Hinderaker has (yet another) excellent piece up on Power Line; this one views more-in-sadness-than-in-anger the not so recent phenomenon of the wanton and tendentious politicization of ostensibly party-neutral cultural congregations, such as classical concerts and sporting events. He concludes ...

This is the 1984 film Silent Madness. Like Fatal Games this is another fairly obscure slasher film that I rather enjoyed. Cute girls in aerobic get ups, a deranged bald mama's boy, a crotchety old sheriff who for some reason reminds me of Zelda Rubinstein, a Dragon's Lair arcade game...sure it's not...