Asylum's Caleb Howe served in the United States Marine Corps from 1993 to 1999. On November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern, a famous bar in Philadelphia, the most logical recruitment drive in history began. If you want to build the United States Marine Corps, promise blood and glory, beer and barmaids. That drive, that birthright, forged a tradition and ethos that carries forward to this day. Marines ...

News out of Liepzig, Germany, today reports three female spectacled bears gone have suddenly, inexplicably, bald. The ursine nudity is causing quite a stir, with vets baffled and worldwide Internet porn purveyors perplexed to discover a type of naked they aren't currently making millions of dollars exploiting. Scientists suggest the problem may be genetic, as the bare bears show no other ...

Today Asylum's Caleb Howe looks back on the first year of Obama's term from a conservative perspective. Be sure to read Tommy Christopher's run-down on the last year from a progressive point of view. It's the one-year mark, the anniversary of the election we are told was the most important one ever. (Well come on, they always exaggerate the night before.) But now that we're in the bright light ...

Clichés are omnipresent in our ADD society. From The New York Times to Bazooka Joe, we just can't stop till we get enough. Here on the information superhighway it is even more pronounced. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, James Frey has a LOT of fans in blogging: derivative, hackneyed, predictable, a favorite of Oprah ... wait, that's the president. But let us be clear, ...

Earlier this week, walking controversy Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) delivered a maudlin and tear-filled performance during a House hearing on health care. Grayson's sensitivity is matched in intensity only by his insensitivity, but it got us wistfully reliving all those man-cry moments politicians have brought us over the years. Back in 1972, Democrat Ed Muskie was swept out of the running for ...

We were all pretty impressed by these working iPhone Halloween costumes a couple of tech geeks slapped together out of LCD screens and car batteries. But we were even more impressed when one of our own readers sent a couple of his own Halloween costumes (including this cylon costume to the left) made out of old iMac computers. Since becoming part of the machine is truly the geek ideal, keep ...

Today at 11:30 a.m., NASA finally launched a multimillion-dollar unmanned prototype of the Ares I rocket after being foiled Tuesday by such complex factors as both wind AND boats. Ares is part of NASA's Constellation program, which enthusiasts point out is step one in putting men on the moon. Step one? We're pretty sure step one was covered when we put men on the moon. Hey, maybe the government ...