Thus Blogged Anderson

During WW2, the U.S. Army briefly ran a program of selecting bright recruits for college training, including one Heinz "Henry" Kis...

The Clarion-Ledger's crack headline squad delivers another classic: Pascagoula police kill man with machete Couldn't they just have ...

Via 3QD , we get: Well, this is unexpected — a comic book about the quest for logical certainty in mathematics . The story spans the decades...

Lovecraft's fiction has always made it evident that his racial views were less than progressive for his time, and as this review of his...

Larry Niven's short story "At the Core" speculated that our galaxy might be exploding in a chain-reaction of supernovae in or ...

I hadn't realized that Tolkien's WW1 experience was at the Somme , which shared with Passchendaele the honor of the very worst place...

Via Emptywheel , here's that rare thing, a big media (AP) story casting doubt on whether torture actually works : The CIA's harsh in...

LGF linked to one " Frank Schaeffer , son of the late Calvinist preacher Francis Schaeffer, [who] has some very interesting insights i...

There was, however, a method of punishment that was not officially sanctioned but was nonetheless permitted. When younger boys were deemed ...

Via LGF -- no, really, they're positively sane these days -- this story about creationist-inspired shenanigans in Louisiana: The state’...

At least it's not a red lightsaber. President Barack Obama uses a light saber as he watches a demonstration of fencing with Tim Morehou...

That would be Roger Ebert's praise for Jennifer's Body , starring Megan Fox's body. (H/t WWTDD .)

Remember TBA noting Paul Krugman's claim that the Chicago-School economists not only disagreed with Keynes, but didn't even read hi...

Hot on the heels of our "Unusable endorsements" post comes another: After you read the suggested books, you will know the truth, ...

Via Drum , the latest Bush-admin tell-all (speechwriter Matt Latimer) demonstrates that Dubya is not a stupid man : I was about to be engulf...