Lawyers Catch Up: Today's Arts & Letters Daily has a piece entitled "The Dread Pirate Bin Laden." It argues that law, a...

Another Beauty: On the heels of yesterday's wonderful story about New London charging the Kelo plantiffs five years' back-rent, we ...

Notes: Kim du Toit notes that absolutely everything the British police claimed was true about the Brazilian they shot dead, was in fact not...

Yes, I Know... ...that the Senate of the United States of America recently apologized for its history on lynching , and I know that lynching...

“All we can decide is whether we shall meet them in a way that will redound to the national credit, or whether we shall make of our dealings...

National Airborne Day: Who knew that there was a "National Airborne Day" ? Well, the fellows in the maroon berets, I guess -- nev...

Reader Notes: JarHeadDad has had a particulary interesting accident, the details of which I won't go into. They aren't mine to shar...

Operation Valor IT: I'm going to be traveling today, so I won't be around to post. However, I gather that there will be some intere...

Cindy Sheehan: I'm always late to chime in on social issues. For one thing, I spend so much of my time reading foreign newspapers, I ra...

Weekend Reading: I haven't had much time to write this weekend, but I do have a few notes from some other sites that may interest you. F...

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...