A Reptilian Bid for the Skies?

If some kid(s) made this turtle take flight, well, that’s clearly cruel. (It did land safely, thankfully.) But the authors of the article are overlooking another possibility: reptilian ambition. What if this turtle in fact had some friends attach all those...

Goldbergian Triumphs of Europe

I used to work in Switzerland. And, outside of one particularly fetching news anchor, I found Swiss TV a weird, weird place. Exhibit A was a 30-minute or so segment that kept re-airing, in which a vast room held an equally vast Goldbergian machine system. Everything...

A Really Good Gun Argument

In the back-and-forth I’ve seen here, in other comment sections, and on Facebook, I’ve seen very few comments from the pro-gun side of the equation as well-stated and well-grounded as the one I’m pasting below. For all the decrying of emotion as a...

The “Disposition Matrix”

The worst part of the presidential campaign is its stifling, two-party narrowness on certain issues. The foreign policy debate of recent days showed just how similarly the two would approach foreign policy (well, apparently, if they are to be believed). There are...