A Trophy Picture: I've spent part of the week cutting stumps out of the ground with a mattock and an axe. I've only had my free (i....

Merchant Marines: FbL, standing in at Villanous Company , reminds us that Merchant Marine day is coming up on Monday, 22 May. In honor of G...

My tastes in Country Music, as with many other things, tend toward the traditional. I am not a fan of the high gloss suburban pop that curr...

MilBlogs: Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette is the founder of the MilBlogs Ring. He's started a new group blog which he describes as ...

Grim's Hall Movie Club: Paint Your Wagon Confirmed Apparently I'm not the only one who would enjoy watching this movie again. How...

Grim's Hall Movie Club: Paint Your Wagon I believe it's time for another movie. Unless anyone has a better suggestion -- which has...

France Explained: All you need to know about France, ever, from the Ministry of Minor Perfidy .

Trackback: I've pulled the trackback code. Never could get it to work right.

Armed Liberal & Karpinski: AL at Winds of Change had lunch with Janice Karpinski . He wrote me beforehand to ask if I had any questions...

The Last Ride: What no enemy could do, the Pentagon has done. 2nd Force Recon is standing down . I never thought I'd live to see that....

Immigration: I have only two comments on Bush's major address on immigration, neither of which are very enlightening. Still, for what i...

The Financial Times on Iran & Indonesia: I'm a little discomfited by finding all these MSM reports agreeing with me on the subject...

Henry Hyde Demands No Respect for War Dead: What would we tell a member of a foreign legislature who said that Bush should be blocked from g...

Seeking Visions: This continues to be a discussion I want to bring back to the front. Karrde mentions that he wonders how long it will be b...

The New NSA Story: I've been thinking about this for some time, having first read the Froggy pieces and the piece by Kim du Toit . Thi...

A Minor Awareness: I remember reading of Tolkien that he thought Shakespeare marked the point at which the English language was ruined. I a...

Visions and Old Kings: Jordan asked what I meant by the post below, responding to Wretchard. I am moving my response to the front page, bec...

Weapons Programs: The New York Review of Books has an excellent piece on the development of nuclear weapons by various countries. Israel...

Who Are They? Heidi's got a movie she'd like you to see, called "Who are they?" It examines the lives of some remarkable...

Changes in the Wind: Wretchard has a warning and a prophecy. The foliage, sounds, the shift in airs, scents -- all of these -- spoke to the...