Program on 100 Best Gadgets of All Time ends with these Top Ten: smartphone radio television hypodermic syringe personal computer wit...

About a month ago, I did something to my right knee. Stretched it too much, or rode the bike too fast...don't know. But it was off. A...

A lacrimose O and his grim bride  Thomas Sowell writes: One of the painfully revealing episodes in Barack Obama's book "Dreams F...

If you watch ethnic group comedians playing to their own group, you can discover that a lot of what is held to be heinous stereotypes when ...

Got an email ad from the archive connected to my old Jungian workplace. Something about the psychological roots of Christian anti-Semitism. ...

Lucky we chose yesterday for the hike. Perfect summer weather. Today: A stubborn storm system parked off the California Coast is dumpin...

A hike yesterday with B to Alpine Lake and Bon Tempe Reservoir in Marin. Sunny, perfect weather. One of SF's great virtues is that plac...

from the very atypical Canadian Kathy Shaidle.

I read recently that when people, either individually or in groups, have serious disagreements, the default responses are usually to conclud...

As Judge Antonin Scalia says, the Constitution does not always match his own convictions, feelings and attitudes. Unlike "living consti...