Wow. A new low even for Illinois! This is a scandal so unsavory that it’s worthy of New Mexico or Louisiana! Governor Unspellable was planning on selling Barack Obama’s seat! (No word on whether it was still attached to Obama at the time.) Naturally, someone promptly put the seat up for auction on eBay.

We’ve done it again. Created a calendar, featuring photos from our 2009 trips. Which were all in the Rocky Mountain areas, so there are many pictures of pointy things. The calendar is 13.5″ x 19″, printed on glossy stock, and includes astronomical data as well as holidays for the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. (Did you […]

The winners have been announced in the recent competition from the American Association for the Advancement of Science— the “Dance Your Ph.D.” Competition, in which doctoral dissertations are illuminated by dance routines. There’s stiff competition here, but I have to say that my favorite was one of the runners-up, “Individual Differences in Exploratory Behavior of […]

Our Founding Paternalists bounced the established church back in 1776. Turns out that, as we didn’t keep the C of E on the government payroll, we not only failed to have the necessary background to fully appreciate Trollope’s Barchester novels, but we also missed some amusing radio ads.Something called the Churches Advertising Network sponsored a […]