Roughnecks v. Terrorists: Michael Yon's piece on the Roughnecks is too good to summarize. But it's also too good to resist summari...

"An Iraq Interrogator's Nightmare" This is an important piece to read. I'm not sure what to say about it yet, however; e...

Galt on Marcotte: Jane Galt worries that the furor over the recent Marcotte business indicates an attempt to shut down religious criticism....

Good Reading Today: Bill Roggio has had two excellent and informative pieces this week: On "the snake eater," an intelligence sy...

Middle Ground on the Fetus/Child Question: Today's story out of Texas strikes me as one of those things that is so sensible that it...

Modern Heresies: Frank Furedi has a piece in Spiked Online defending free thought from what he calls "modern inquisitions." It b...

Specials Today: Islamic Angels Have No Free Will Salim Mansur writes at PJM a piece called "The Cool Water of the Koran." It is ...

Tech Notes: I saw once when I loaded the blog today a warning that it wants to install some sort of "Microsoft Data Access" produc...

Horses I Have Known, III: This short series has gotten a good response, so I suppose I'll continue it occasionally. Cassandra (who is o...

Brain Trust: The Washington Post has a good article on 'officers with PhDs' forming around Petraeus. It includes David Kilcullen,...

PeaceMaker Review - Part 3 In part 1, I discussed the game as a game; in part 2 I talked about the limitations. I ought to say something ab...

PeaceMaker Review - Part 2 The developers made no secret of their hope that the game could encourage partisans to see each other's point...

Peacemaker Review - Part 1 Hello, all - I'm that long-winded infidel character you may have seen in comments around here. Grim recently ...

Superbowl: First Half Indiana is stomping Chicago so far, in spite of all the turnovers, in spite of the fact that Chicago was the only one ...

Those Selfish Punks: The Independent in the UK has a story today called, "Generation Y Speaks: it's all us, us, us." Yeah, t...

Happy Superbowl Sunday: I'll be taking off the evening to watch the game with my father. I'd like to take a moment to point to a co...

Saturday Notes: For NASCAR fans out there, I saw Bill Elliot at lunch. I was eating with my father at the Dawsonville Pool Room, and Elliot...

Weirdness: Fuzzy has tagged me with a meme called "Six Weird Things." I'm a little bemused by it. "Post 6 weird things ...

Molly Ivins died on Wednesday, same day Grim posted about that idiot Arkin. When I arrived home from night classes, I kissed the three kidd...

Election Fraud: Feeling bad about how little trust there is in our elections? Read this, which features famous gunfighter Johnny Ringo in t...