Road Rage: A writer named Kaffie Sledge at the Columbus (Georgia) Ledger-Enquirer has a piece called "Vets Ripe for Road Rage." ...

A Good Day: Today, the grandparents -- that is, my family -- were up visiting from down Georgia way. We took the boy on his first train rid...

Letters from Home: JHD writes to tell me that a Marine from my home was killed this week. He was too young for me to know him, though I kno...

Another Warning Sign: Thanks to Arts & Letters Daily for this link to "Unrealised Moscow." It is a slide show, with text, o...

Something I Never Expected: Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein calls on the IRA to lay down arms. This will be an interesting one to watch, since Si...

Sloppy Thinking: The following letter appeared in the Best of the Web yesterday. It was composed by a resident of Germantown, MD, who had ...

National Tartan Day : As per the last post, it's national Tartan Day today. BlackFive has a post on haggis. I've had actual haggi...

Good Lord: It proves that I'm related to BlackFive. Distantly, but all the same -- he's a Clansman.

National Review Supports MilBlogs: Yesterday must have been the unofficial day of support for MilBlogs for NRO. Greyhawk's alternative...

Pulitzers: After the Pulitzers decided to award a prize to a collaborater with murderers, the Mudville Gazette has called for an alternativ...

Sometimes it's simple. " You mean you have no other plan than to stand your ground? " Says an incredulous Michael Caine to Sta...

Paul Smith: If you haven't read the Medal of Honor citation for Sgt. 1st Class Smith, you should. It was a posthumous ceremony, as are ...

Brotherhood: Geraghty has more on the grief of Mehmet Ali Agca, attempted assassin of the Pope. Geraghty is astonished: Sad to say, the gr...

Wrath: Christopher Hitchens has some for the late Pope, which you have surely seen by now. There is a two-fisted debate going on between f...

More Kind Words for John Paul: The Christian Science Monitor has a roundup piece on tributes to the deceased Pope. One among those offeri...

On the Pope: You will have read much about the Pope's life, and his expected passing. The one thing that I read that struck me most cam...

A Bad Day: Some days just don't go right. This has sure been one of them. Absolutely everything I've tried to do today has gone ...

Grand Strategy: TigerHawk has a lengthy transcript of a lecture by professor Michael Doran of Princeton University. Wretchard has some add...

Defense Industry News: I apparently missed it, but Joe Katzman of Winds of Change -- who, as leader of the Pajamhadeen faction, was an ally...

Re-writing history. Sorta. So. I watched a new National Geographic special last night about the "Lost Treasures of Afghanistan" wh...