There's a really strong Gospel tradition in country music; Johnny Cash diverted a good part of his career to it, the part no one remembe...

The local tribe nation has a Facebook page associated with cultural education, which is interesting to follow. Learning these words won...

The mayor of Robbinsville, the town closest to the Tail of the Dragon motorcycle road, has been arrested for dealing meth and cocaine. He ha...

My Congressman, Chuck Edwards, I mean. You may recall that I switched parties to vote against him in the primaries this year, sadly to no ef...

Captain Red negotiates a little cannibalism. Almost any comments on any blog or website that are built around the President are likely to be...

Here is an account of why you shouldn’t respect religious prohibitions that aren’t your own.  One of the senior officers in the auditorium ...

As is common among good Southerners, I call my mother "Mama." Here I am listening to my mother tell a story about my cousins visit...

You’ve likely seen this photo of an Idaho citizen engaging a mass shooter at a drive through burger joint. The profile of the firearm sugges...

All is green and mighty atop the world in high summer.  Overlooking Courthouse Valley. Blackberries are ripe up here. I leave most of them f...

In the ongoing trainwreck that is the Maine Senate race, the new candidate has a slight irregularity in his family tree. I never want to h...

From Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership , trans. Thomas Cleary (Boston & London: Shambala Books, 1993), 52-3: Lesson 42. Huanglong said ...

The hatred of one's origin ends up being a damaging hatred of the self; Grim's Hall has long argued that some sort of patriotic forg...

One argument being fielded in the circuit split driving the upcoming landmark SCOTUS case on the Second Amendment is a historical examinatio...

Pretty wild night of storms with tornadoes and hail, but all is well here. Up on the Tail of the Dragon they got it in the teeth it sounds l...

An article distinguishes between two sorts of jobs with barnyard epithets . One sort is wearying and spiritually deadening; the other, most...

The Clinton faction dominated the Democratic Party during the 1990s, while Bill Clinton enjoyed the powers of the presidency (and boy, did h...

One of the longstanding views of this space is that Robert E. Howard's view of history was closer to right than otherwise: civilization...