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Turns out that carrying certain kinds of novels can make you so suspicious that airlines won't let you fly. See...

I've been reading a lot lately. Stories for the magazine, of course. And I've stolen a few guilty hours here...

Here's a start at a list of the Standard Horror Plots that we receive frequently (and wish we didn't). Main...

Why o why do authors persist in sending us predictable horror stories that contain no speculative elements at all?...

An excellent article at FindLaw about the role of the Constitution during wartime. The gist of the article can be...

No, my terrorism discussion is still to come. For now, just pointing you to Jon Carroll on why we shouldn't...

Silliness: faux article on Larry Ellison's commencement address at Yale. "In one of the more controversial commencement addresses in memory,...

I've been trying to find time for days to write about this past weekend, which had some very good parts...

Very silly (and untrue) news story about a mistaken rapture. The author of the story is apparently vehemently anti-religious, but...

Seems Bell Labs has created a nanometer-scale organic transistor. Cool beans. The Slashdot thread on the subject has some useful...

I know lots of people have had many major problems with the good old US Postal Service, but they've been...