Fearful Symmetries

1 September 2005 - 23 November 2006 Thanksgiving didn't start well. The Dulcinea awoke to find Maddie motionless and virtually unable to...

From Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, comes this blog post, "Atheists: The New Gays" . Prior to 9/11, it would have been caree...

There is a wonderful series of discussions available to watch about reason and religion up at Beyond Belief 2006 . The conversations took pl...

Roasting one's own coffee is becoming more popular. "Coffee snobs move on to homemade roasts" gives an overview of the still ...

One of my favorite directors, Robert Altman, has passed away . :(

The National Endowment for the Arts recently laid into NPR for its turn away from music and towards more news/talk radio. A new report fro...

Tuesday, November 21, 8:00 pm. FFRF co-president Dan Barker will talk about "Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist," and...

The UW gets a mention in the Sept-Oct 2006 issue of mental_floss magazine. There's a piece about school fight songs called "Someth...

2006 is winding down and I've still got a lot of good brews to try before 2007 arrives! Capital Brewery has introduced their Vintage Al...

This week's "banned" cartoon is "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" which was released on 22 April 1944, right in the middle ...

Renowned economist Milton Friedman has died . Even if you're on the far left, he is still worth reading as his influence has been far-re...

Today marks the return of the Leonid Meteor Shower . Unfortunately, we Wisconsonians are going to miss most of the best action.

Oh, this is just rich. Some kid in West Bend injured himself while jockeying to get a PS3. A 19-year-old man had to be taken to the hospita...

I'm currently reading Misquoting Jesus , a book about textural criticism of the New Testament. The author, Bret Ehrman, describes how ch...

Verona-based Epic Systems looks to be in some hot water. An electronic health records management system of theirs has been rolled out and is...

Last month I briefly talked about the potential of passenger rail returning to Madison . As I wrote, the main impediment to an Amtrak stop h...

With my roommates vacationing for week in sunny Mexico, I have assumed control of one of our TiVos. And so I availed myself of the opportuni...

"Frigid Hare" is a Bugs Bunny short released on 4 October 1949. It is not one of the so-called "Banned 11", which were p...

Here comes the first real snowfall of the season. TCT is saying about 4 inches while the Weather Channel is estimating half of that.