Oh, And By The Way: Happy St. George's Day . Grim's Hall honors all dragonslayers . This is one reason I named my son Beowulf . T...

CPL Watkins, II: You may wish to read Thunder 6 today. He has a message that Corporal Watkins left for his unit, in case he might not make...

Terror Trial: As we all watch the Moussaoui trial in Alexandria, take a moment to glance over the pond . There, an accomplice of the famous...

Cyborgs: Military.com has an article called "BIONIC HAND" , which looks at the latest DARPA projects on the topic. Cyberpunk ...

Citizens' Arrest: Daniel has it right: this is too good not to share : Arizona law conveys the legal right to make a citizen's arr...

Remember Goliad! Daniel has a post celebrating the battle of San Jacinto, which happened today in 1836. Among the details he mentions is s...

News from Thailand: You'll be glad to know that Thailand's tourist economy, devastated for a time by the tsunami, is recovering. Th...

Soldiers' Angels The Soldiers' Angels are having what they describe, in embarrassed tones, as their "once a year please we nee...

Desire and the "Dictatorship of Relativism" In his book Autumn Lightning , Dave Lowry describes his education in the arts of Japan...

Pope Benedict XVI: The newly elected pope has an interesting background , notes the Times of India : Unknown to many members of the church, ...

Soldier's Life: American Soldier approaches the 150,000 mark. He's been writing around for links to try and get over the hump. Yo...

China Readings: China has been getting a lot of interest lately, due to the anti-Japanese riots. Some of you might be interested in reading...

On Malaysia: You probably saw this link on the Sage . He said of it: EITHER THIS IS A DREADFUL HIT PIECE, or the Heritage Foundation has s...

Comments Policy & New Links: I've noticed a dropoff in the number of comments lately. I wanted to take the opportunity to spur you ...

Protesters and Darwin: There are, apparently, anti-World Bank protests scheduled for this "long weekend." Work sent me a warning ...

Buy A Gun Day: Today is Buy A Gun Day, which I believe was begun by Aaron's Rantblog. I used to link to it, until it went on hiatus. T...

ANGLICO Marines Ask Aid: BlackFive has more.

Bladework: Speaking of arms in the sunlight, I've a story I've been meaning to tell for several days. It happened last Sunday, on t...

Arms In Sunlight: Spurred by the recent range reports by Plainsman and the Geek , I decided to head out to the range today. I took along m...

On Keeping Dogs: The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece on studies related to dog intelligence. The author went by a leading univer...