GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher)

Some governments also have “kill switches” that can effectively turn off the internet in their country. ....  China is rumoured to have a...

Small bore, low key, below the ridge line and credible both in its magic and its reality ... the 1995 movie, " Smoke ." I like i...

SOSNOVKA, Russia (AP) -- A village in Siberia that did not have a church until this winter is getting a lesson in fai...

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was silenced in the U.S. Senate today when she attempted to read the words of Coretta Scott King (wife ...

True or false, a fart pill has made my day today after arriving initially from the Globe and Mail and subsequently from a chum in Japan. Fir...

It is allegedly the most expensive house listed in the U.S. and yours for only $250 million. All I can think of is ... is it to-swoon-over ...

Empathy... Morality.... Yum..... Not..... [Empathy] is not without its discontents . In his latest book, "Against Empathy,...

At least the news stories (are there any news stories any more?) are beginning to lean a little towards a question I wouldn't mind seein...

KIcking Israel's version of apartheid down the road, Israel passes bill retroactively legalising Jewish settlements ...

The Pentagon has failed to disclose up to thousands of air strikes the U.S. military carried out over several years in Iraq, Syria, a...

And you thought "Downton Abbey" was a scrumptious fiction!? In April 1939, Doreen Bates presented Bill Evans, the man she had b...

WHO RUNS STUFF?  Sweden’s deputy prime minister, Isabella Lövin, has published a photograph of herself signing a climate bill surround...

Interesting to note that the uproar in Europe hardly bothers to mention that the word "Spiegel" means "mirror" in Germ...

Artists from all over Vietnam took part in the Tich Dien festival in Ha Nam province.

In 1944, an article called “American Fascism” appeared in the New York Times, written by then vice president Henry Wallace. “A fascist,...

Sayonara Sears. Sayonara malls. To say that Sears is a household name in US retail is an understatement. The 130-year-old company ope...

US pig producers have quashed fears of a bacon shortage in the country. Mild online panic spread after US Department of Agriculture data...

A 75-year-old grandfather has been offered free holidays around Australia after his online advert to find a new "fishing mate...

Passed along in email was this Bertrand Russell laconic essay on the usefulness of laziness. Written in 1932. In Praise of Idlesness. Bert...

Passed along in email ... in some way, a large part of my life is being commodified. This may, in the end, be where spiritual life ends up a...

Hello, my name is Ashley (of course it's "Ashley," you just knew it would be one of those breezy, breathless millennial monik...

I asked my wife and my two sons -- since it's a long way down for this aging body, would one of them be willing to trim my toenails? To ...

War takes courage and a certain liqueous stupidity. Peace takes character. From this, if true, it can be seen why I'll be damned if ...

Passed along in email: A young man named Donald bought a horse from a farmer for $250. The farmer agreed to deliver the horse the next da...

Every day for the last 20 days , between the hours of 11am and about 10pm, four of the world’s top poker players have been sitting in a P...

The group's young leader, Vicentia Chanvoukini, known by her followers as "Lady Perfect", has proclaimed herself a god. Lady...

It's higglety-pigglety, perhaps, but it's George Carlin and therefore intelligent from where I sit. Everyone gets skewered in this b...

Thomas Countryman was on his way to Rome for an international meeting on nuclear weapons on Wednesday when he found out he had been sum...

A global backlash against U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration curbs gathered pace on Sunday as several countries including lo...