I urge you to read this op ed by Dick Cavett on depression. This is a man who’s been there.

John McCain jokes about beating his wife.

This one is actually amusing. A researcher with two Ph.D.s working for a super-elite think tank tried to track down the origins of the “Obama is a Muslim” email. After months of painstaking work, the trail eventually led to … Free Republic. She could have just asked us.

The oldest Soto Zen monastery in the U.S. is threatened by wildfires.