To Insufferable Guests: I notice all to my grief, My vegan guests will not eat beef; But if I roast them in beef's stead, And boil their...

A Crazy Game of Poker: I spent last night playing poker at the house of a former neighbor of mine, who is the groundskeeper at the local Cat...

Global War: (also posted at Wilde Karrde ) I seem to recall saying, shortly after the London Subway Bombings last July, that this is another...

Whiskey in the Jar: The COUNTERCOLUMN reports on the EU and Irish ballads . Short version: apparently, you have to be in a union to sing a...

Bin Laden offers truce. Sorry... but I'll only accept their surrender... preferably at bayonet tip. I especially loved the: "We are...

"The Whiskey Wars" Are Finally Over: Unconditional surrender has at last been achieved. Only took 131 years; but our cause was j...

Medicare & "Friction" I'm going to take another stab at saying what I was trying to say below. Sovay is furious because s...

The Medicare Disaster: I've just had an enlightening conversation with dear Sovay, who is up in arms over the Medicare disaster. "...

Chinese Paramilitary Police: In the comments to the "war games" post below, Eric mentions the Chinese and Russian responses to Ira...

"The Personal Is Political" See, I can actually understand why this guy wants to ban the ownership of guns by private families. ...

The Atlantic 's War Games: I've mentioned in the past my respect for Colonel Sam Gardiner, in spite of his attachment to conspiracy...

Plantations: I didn't have time to blog yesterday, so I missed these insightful comments from the Honorable Senator Clinton. "When...

Reasonable Men: I post two examples today of blessed reason in a highly charged debate. The first is from Kim du Toit, speaking of "i...

A Pair of Religious Articles: Francis J. Beckwith has a review of a new book on the separation of church and state. I was not aware of the...

New Links: I've added a couple more links to the sidebar. As usual, I don't get around to editing the template often enough, and so...

The Ruger "Alaskan" Oh, yes. A .454 Casull fired out of a 2.5 inch barrel -- OOH-RAH! Gonna have to get one of these some time....

Did You Have a Friend? So the old song asks, about the good Reuben James . But did you know who Mr. Reuben James was? In the ensuing skirmi...

Ethics & Politics: As we were just discussing the other day , for both Plato and Aristotle the correct politics were a natural outgrowth...

Politics in the Great State of Georgia: I see that Feddie of Southern Appeal has joined the re-election campaign of Governor Sonny Perdue....

"Moose Drool" Anyone who happens across some of this is invited to send me some. It's apparently available in Minnesota, whe...