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#5 The Sister Brothers by Patrick DeWitt Not many reviewers can resist comparing The Sister Brothers to the Cohen Brothers' version of...

Fresh from launching a trial balloon on reopening the abortion debate that he swears he has no interest in reopening (mainly because it is ...

And a bunch of other stuff I found Now that Stephen Colbert is sort of running for the Republican nomination and outpolling Jon Huntsman ...

The United States Marine Corps -  America's No. 1 fighting force (sorry, I couldn't help it) Tweet

A little something in honour of my 50 book project. (for Dan and Tammy ) Tweet

As mentioned previously, I've embarked on a little project this year to read 50 books. Partly because I found I had started to cut down ...

Canada's ethical snake-oil salesman and Glenn Beck wannabe Ezra Levant continues to keep it classy .  As far as I can tell, Ezra's...

My plan for this year is to read at least 50 books - just about one a week, which for me shouldn't really be a stretch provided I don...

(JimDandy Goodness, with his sponsored argument between atheists and agnostics, and annoyance at dimwits who discount meteorology because i...

Swordmaster Bob Anderson has laid down his blade at last.   Tweet

 (graphic and entire concept shamelessly stolen from the brilliant Driftglass post that inspired this whole thing) Close up: Willard, a...

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  "Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. " -John...

Shopping season being upon us, we here at the Woodshed are making our list and checking it twice. Kids are often difficult to buy for, as to...

Before you go opening your piehole about how "those Indians get a free ride" and are just "spending all our tax money on booz...

...Unless they happen to be Iranian or North Korean or Syrian or Mexican or Jordanian or Nicaraguan or Cuban or Russian or French or Chinese...

I'm sure the message many of the one percent will draw from this is that handguns are too inexpensive. Tweet

Shamelessly stolen from PZ over at Pharyngula , music by Jonathan Colton , whose work you really , really need to become more familiar wi...

It is kind of Thunderbirds meets the Prisoner via Monty Python, the Batman TV series and a really low budget Japanese sci-fi series. This i...

My suggestion if you find one of these on your vehicle would be to either drive to a truckstop and stick it on a tractor-trailer with out-of...