When we become adults, and then older adults, we drop certain things. Part of that is just deciding who we are. We try things; some work out...

The author of the press release didn't write this headline and the author of the study most certainly did not. This goof-up falls on th...

Howard Dean has joined Harry Reid, Newt Gingrich, the hounds of the racist right, and a handful of timid New York Democrats in saying the C...

The news is reporting that former Senator Ted Stevens was killed in plane crash near Dillingham in Southwestern Alaska last night. As a form...

I think most people who read this blog will agree that Ben Nelson is the worst Democrat in the Senate. But who is number two? There are lots...

In journalism, it's important to say something quickly, even if what you have to say is stupid. On CNN.com just now: The decision, issu...

Brad Thor, of the Breitbart website "Big Government", claims the founding fathers did not intend for the First Amendment to protec...

Michele Bachmann and Bat-boy This has been another edition of Cheap Shots with your host, John.

In their early days, scientific journals were much more generous than they are today about publishing letters from experimenters and collect...

Yarn Theory It's best described using fuzzy math.