Osler's Razor

  Garages should be simple: cars go in there. But in reality, it is not so simple. Let's haiku this week about those hidden treasures to...

  The DOJ has a lot of important tasks. Perhaps most importantly right now, the FBI is the lead agency for counter-terrorism, working with f...

  Curacao is a Dutch Caribbean island (it is an independent nation under the Dutch throne), with a population of only about 150,000. And thi...

  So, a lot of people claimed that White House advisor Steven Miller used his wife as a human shield as they fled the White House Correspond...

  Wow! There were lots of fantastic haiku about bears this week. I was quite taken by this one and its sartorial insights: Smokey and Pooh B...

  On Friday, I took my clemency clinic students on a field trip. I rented a big van and we drove north 100 miles to FCI Sandstone, a medium-...

 

  I've often thought that our national animal really should be the bear. Bears are much-loved by Americans, after all. Let's haiku a...

  Despite the bluster on both sides, the war in Iran seems to be in some kind of weird limbo. The Trump administration is calling it a ...

  It's going to be a pretty interesting evening over at Baylor tonight. There are two (intentionally) competing events, happening in clo...

  So here is some great news: according to the New York Times , The Onion is finally succeeding in its quest to take over Infowars, the web ...

  Ah, I loved the picture Desiree painted: The ground thawed, so it’s   time to dig! Soon okra and butterflies arrive! And CraigA, too: Warm...

  As most people have seen, President Trump recently posted (then deleted) an image of him as Jesus, healing a sick man. I can't bring m...

  Yesterday, JD Vance accused Iran of "economic terrorism" and then said "two can play at that game!" Which... is saying...

  I love living in a place where there is such richness in the change of seasons. When the warm days come, everyone is suddenly outside, and...

  There were a lot of strange things going on in the past week-- the "Trump as Jesus" post, the idea that blockading the Strait of...

  In voting out Victor Orban as Prime Minister in Hungary, the people of that nation finally steered away from authoritarianism. The man the...

  I'm a little obsessed with mascots, and above you will find one of my favorite mascot photos of all time. Inexplicably, it appeared on...

  There were lots of great entries last week, but I have to say that this poem by Sleepy Walleye is one of the very best I have seen in the ...

  It is that time (well, in Minnesota, almost that time) that the landscape shifts from white to brown to green and bursting with color. It...