The House of Substance

Good old Jonah: As Noah Glyn noted the other day, apparently Nancy Pelosi is not content to let Harry Reid win the title of shabbiest con...

Katrina Trinko notices that young Republicans give far less of a shit about what naughty bits go where than they should. I’m 24, and I’m us...

Some algorithm'll spot the samples. The idea was sort of musical trolling. Initially I just wanted to loop those opening Led Zep bits a...

This via Boing Boing is the end of an interesting story: But let’s say he did know, and failed to stop it. Hell, for the sake of argument, l...

FOR GREAT JUSTICE: TEXAS — Two young students in Hood County have been arrested for creating a fake Facebook account using the name of a cl...

Follow ye link: At first I thought it was a joke when I read a recipe for “The Puppy Water” in a recipe collection compiled by one Mary Dogg...

You might want to go look at some photos by Peter-Paul de Meijer.

Jay Nordlinger: “Vanilla,” they say. [Ohio Senator Rob] Portman is “vanilla.” What a bizarre putdown, in more ways than one. First, as I’ve ...

There is just too much summer relief going on. Going out to drink this evening and it's an open question if I can get prepared in the s...

This is an interesting video: Story here. Assuming it's real I guess I don't have a problem with these guys making life hard for a s...

Remember this? Today it looks a bit like this: The Lovely Daughter is off to camp. A whole week without relatives of any sort pushing her a...

Convenience! WISCONSIN - Canada’s Enbridge Inc. raced on Sunday to repair a major pipeline that spilled more than 1,000 barrels of oil in a ...

How to make money from art: The record labels that successfully sued The Pirate Bay for millions on the grounds that the network had infring...

Via Yglesias via Atrios here is an article about Microsoft's various and continuing failures. This is the kind of thing that's f...

Kevin D. Williamson: A little perspective on the gun-control debate: According U.N. data, the number of homicides committed with firearms i...

Mike "Gamecock" DeVine has a question about the Chick-fil-A stuff: But seriously, are there enough gays, lesbians, transvestites, ...

Yes, it's a long-awaited portrait of me riding the bus and looking especially dashing. For those with the temerity to experiment with Q...

Thomas Sowell, on side for his team: After the charismatic -- and disastrous -- Woodrow Wilson presidency, the voters did not elect another ...

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Ann-Marie Murrell: Comparing the differences, I finally understood why so many Democrats remain Democrat no matter how unreasonable and unin...