Bernie Madoff was no dynamo in the sack. In her new book, due out Aug. 25, Madoff ex-mistress and financial victim Sheryl Weinstein gets, as the New York Daily News put it, “her incredible revenge by publicly humiliating him with the most intimate...

Scientists have discovered a fungus in Thailand that takes over ant brains, compelling them to mindlessly do the fungus’s bidding. We’ve heard about parasitic ant zombification before, but scientists have no idea how the fungus controls the ants so...

Ok, the title is a reference to What’s My Line, back when people actually were literate, interesting and, well, droll. The following is a proclamation signed by a Governor and posted on the state’s Web site — although it has since been taken...

I’ve lived in Austin on and off for thirty years, and there are some basic assumptions I make. First, everybody in this city, plucked from of the street randomly,  plays guitar better than I do. Secondly, Whole Foods got its start here and has grown...

Pam Spaulding in Raw Story has a remarkable piece which highlights the far right’s (now mainstream Republican) position on immigration, another example of some sad, sick, dangerous, frightened people who have as solid a mind as, say, Gumby. She...