The Lawyers and New Orleans: Small comfort to the people who have been disarmed at gunpoint by armed bandits the New Orleans police, but t...

Eric Blair's Tour to the Stars: There's a new section of links called "Eric Blair's Favorites" over on the sidebar. I...

Hmm... Apparently Eric was right about that : Waters were receding across this flood-beaten city today as police officers began confiscating...

Heh. I'm thinking this fellow isn't going to be on the Huffingtion Post too much longer. (via Instapundit ) Make sure you read his b...

Code Pink: Code Pink has apparently accepted SMASH's challenge to help raise funds for the Katrina disaster. You might want to help ou...

Bloodstripes: Congratulations to "Da Grunt," son of our own frequent commenter JarHeadDad, who has made corporal. Semper Fi.

Paladins: Up the militia! Even, one supposes, the hastily assembled and fairly ignorant militia : It's been a terrifying nine days for ...

A Letter from China: Wang Jisi is a classic figure from the Chinese landscape: a scholar with influence at the court. He is, in fact, dean...

Viking Ships: When I got home last night from the feasts, although it was after nine o' clock, I discovered the the grandparents whom we...

Evenings in Ellijay: Ellijay is the seat of Gilmer County, Georgia, the apple-growing capital of... well, the world, as far as I know, but t...

Many Meetings: Today Grim pulled his great viking ship up on two high shores, and held feasts among the wrack. It was a very pleasant day, ...

You can just feel the frustration. Over at Countercolumn, Jason van Steenwyk is ripping Bob Herbert and the NY Times a new one . Not that I ...

A Challenge From the Right: There have been two pieces recently charging that the American Right, and particularly the Republican party, is ...

Asian News: Reading newspapers is rather like developing a taste for a regional cuisine. You have the British newspapers, which are so bras...

More Georgia Stories: It's now halftime for the season's opening game of the Georgia Bulldogs. It's been too long since I had a...

Well, its a problem now, isn't it? After reading the 'guest author' over at Winds of Change, I can't say that I'm reall...

Katrina Analysis: The best I've seen lies behind these two links: Winds of Change has this reading on the final scale of the disaster. ...

Contact Info: Greyhawk sends. Distribute to anyone who might need it. Official DOD page on contact information for military families displ...

Gifts: While helping my father clean out a room in the old family house, I noticed a ribboned medal atop one of the pieces of furniture we w...

Lawless: I warn you that what follows is not pleasant, and you may wish to skip this entry entirely if you do not wish to consider unpleasan...