As we've seen in recent years, pretty much any type of dishonesty, incompetence, corruption, crime, or treason is no reason for any elected Republican to feel any shame much less lose office ( Read more... )

New Orleans' Old Homes Built To Last-- as mentioned before, older style architecture easier to fix up

Florida spammer faces $11bn fine -- Froggy says: "Ha ha!"

Mediaeval Sexual Behaviour from "Sex in History" Appose of nothing in particular beyond that I just found this on line, and it's some interesting reading.

Sex, like comet spotting, is one of the few fields where most of the best work is still done by enthusiastic amateurs.