If you ever wonder who is watching the watchers and also who is watching the watchers watch, apparently it's the FBI and NPR:  •  “A multi-year investigation leads federal agents to search the Office of Special Counsel's building. Employees have alleged the agency was misused for political …

Oh, for the 1950s and their simple concerns - nuclear fear, lack of access to tea:  •  “Even in the nation's darkest hours, nothing has traditionally given so much comfort and succour to the British soul as a nice cup of tea. So much is the beverage bound up with the national character that …

Did you see Many Saturday night? Of course you - unless you are Chris - didn't because only Chris and I have invested wisely in the baseball sports package. Because of that decision we saw Manny pick a runner off at home plate throwing from the outfield. He picked him off with enough time to watch …

How was your May Day? Did you think of Stalin? Didn't pop into my head once  •  but I did about seven loads of laundry. Does that count?  •  Update: photobombing...potentially  •  NSFW depending on where you work and who is watching!  •  Were you aware that India launched ten satellites with one …

Is May the best month? Every year I get to March with gasping relief that the piercing cold is gone but it is only 60 days later that you can relax - just yesterday there was snow and hail...the size of corn kernels, too. No canned hams or golf balls but definitely corn. The crocus is done and …

The last two cars I bought were no interest deals. But is the entire economy of North America moving to a place where there is no profit and no consequences from borrowing money?  •  “ The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday, a smaller move than the aggressive …

Finally. A new crop farmers can grow - even in the third world - that the industrialized nations a desperate to get their hands on. But all is not well with biofuels. We should have heeded the warning of The House Martins from twenty years ago:  •  “Me and the farmer get on fine,  •  Through …

Either not having my coffee yet or lacking basic elements of an understanding of medicine is getting in my way of understanding this good news:  •  “Children who attend daycare or playgroups cut their risk of the most common type of childhood leukaemia by around 30%, a study estimates. Researchers …

When I was in high school, my father's hometown team placed Celtic, they played Rangers - they were in the Scottish top league. Once in a blue moon in the 1970s, you could catch - on the BBC World Service, coming in on the organic flow of shortwave radio at some crazy frequency like 15220 (the …