Op. Valor IT The Castle and BlackFive describe Operation Valor IT, a project to get technology to the wounded of our mission in Iraq. Sol...

Life in the Hills: Yesterday was a nearly fourteen hour day for me, but along about evening I did take an hour off work to go swimming. I h...

Pagans: "Pagan" is a word that comes from the Latin paganus , "country-dweller," which in turn comes from pagus , "...

Dog Bombs: I suppose it was inevitable that dog bombs would prove to be real . Naturally, in this era, anything that seems too ridiculous o...

Cowboys & Indians: A special award in the 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest was this little entry: India, which hangs like a wet washc...

Doc: You might want to get by and congratulate Doc Russia , who appears to have had a good day. Although the patient died, he didn't di...

Is Conservatism A Character Defect? Visit Cassandra , who hopefully will prove to me that it is not. The evidence she has cited so far runs...

Wrong Headline: The AFP has put the headline "Men Do Have Trouble Hearing Women" on this story : Men who are accused of never list...

Democracy in the Philippines: The Manila Times ("Since 1898") has an article today on the upcoming elections. Looks like about o...

Happy Birthday: My baby sister was born on this date. She's grown up and run off to Minnesota since then, and I haven't seen her in...

A Little Mountain Feud, Part II: Part I here . I promised to keep y'all informed, so here we are. The wife saw Captain Moonshine driving...

"That's Actually Kind of a Dream of Mine." OK, so an illegal immigrant got past the FBI's background checks, got a job as ...

The Fang Fund: Nobody who navigates the blogosphere regularly will first learn here about Venomous Kate's lost teeth . Still, I know a ...

Reagan, Reagan Everywhere: The folks at the Corner are having an idle debate today over whether enough things have been named after Ronald R...

Searches on the NY Subway: Baldilocks is on the track of the NYCLU's suit over the NYPD's random searches on the NY Subway. I have ...

Hey... So this is why all of you keep coming around here... A study of 7,000 people in their early 20s, 40s and 60s found that those who dr...

Guns in the Parking Lot: My wife, who reads the blog though she has never commented here, asks for fewer gun-related stories, as she finds t...

5.56mm: Amid this excellent bit of photoblogging by Michael Yon, there is an insightful comment. He was right there during a firefight wit...

The Remote: While reading over the worst short story I've seen in ages (and who knew that Valerie Plame was really a KGB officer?) I ca...

Ooh-Rah! Kim du Toit knocks one out of the park.