"Please take away my Second Amendment right."

"Do more to help us protect ourselves because what’s most likely to wake me in the early hours isn’t a man’s body slamming at my door b...

The Sandy Hook massacre should "force us to confront yet again the ways in which ever more of our lives are lived on a screen, in the cloud, via our computers and phones and tablets...."

Says Michael S. Rosenwald, noting that: Except for using the bathroom and eating his meals, getting a haircut was just about the only thing ...

"As of today, Barack Obama’s presidency is half over. If that’s not enough to cheer you up..."

"... try heading over to the Insta-Wife’s new site, Helen’s Page, where you can commiserate or whatever with others who feel the same w...

"Then David said to Abigail 'Blessed is your advice and blessed are you.'"

"Mrs. Phillips chose her pen name herself, taking Abigail after the prophetess in the Book of Samuel... and Van Buren for its old-famil...

Why are gun-death statistics inflated with gun-suicide numbers?

"I thought we had a right to die...." Obviously, one reason is: to get bigger numbers. But I think the people that lump gun deaths...

"The way I think she’d put it is that, when bad things happen, women brood — they’re cerebral, which can feed into the depression."

"Men are more inclined to act, to do something, plan, beat someone up, play basketball." A colleague summarizes the work of Susan ...

"What we found was that people are pretty patient for up to two seconds..."

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"Be a Sadist."

Rule #6 on Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing a short story: No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful thing...

In discussing what makes a job the "least stressful"...

... consider that, in this context, the opposite of stress is control . Is that true? For some, I would think, too much control would lead t...

"A revolution has begun against the perception of beauty in Israel..."

"...  this law shatters the anorexic ideal serving as an example for the country’s youth." The new law, known as the “photoshop la...

"A deranged woman who told cops she detests Muslims broke into a maniacal fit of laughter as she was charged with a hate crime Saturday..."

"... three days after she allegedly shoved an Indian immigrant to his death in front of a Queens train." “Tell your client this is...

I finally figured out what David Gregory displaying that prop reminds me of.

Yesterday, I was asking: Why was that prop so important to David Gregory? If possession of that high-capacity magazine was a crime, and the...

"Are gun owners now going to be stigmatized like sex offenders?"

Asks TalkLeft. I think it's an attempt at intimidation. I wonder if any of those whose addresses were published are immediate family mem...

"Antidepressants to treat grief?"

"Psychiatry panelists with ties to drug industry say yes."

"Intimidation: NY Newspaper Publishes Names, Addresses of Gun Permit Holders."

"I guess nobody could object to people putting the newspaper staff’s addresses on the Web now, right?, says Instapundit , and as I clic...

"See? You can be messy on the inside, and no one knows."

Step inside a 400-square-foot apartment space , transformed by elaborate built-ins: The quote I've used for the post title appears about...

9th Circuit panel blocks California ban on gay "reparative" therapy.

"The appeals court's order prevents the state from enforcing the law, SB1172, while a different three-judge panel considers if the ...

"Lady Jerks of 2012: A Year in Review."

Today seems to be my day for finding screwy ideas in Slate. This one seems to be a twist on the old feminist bumper sticker "Well-behav...

The monster in Peggy Noonan's childhood closet was... Abraham Lincoln!

Writing about childhood fears (post-Newtown), she reveals : One night when the moon was bright and the wind was moving the trees, I looked f...

I feel bad about all the winners of the Big Ten's Suzy Favor Athlete of the Year Award.

If your name has been pasted on others as an honor, you have a special responsibility not to besmirch it. I feel sorry for the winners of th...