The Evil of Prison: I've written occasionally about the failures of the prison/rehabilitation system with which we attempt to correct cr...

An Ugly Reminder This story from Texas illustrates an ugly reality. According to the story, a married woman called her lover while her hus...

Less Violence, II: Joe promises to return to the subject he brought up last week. In the meanwhile, the Pinker article is now in the clear ...

Adventures with Naughty Horses: The horse company is down by the Etowah River , which forms a natural fence to one of the fields. At least ...

Com Check: Co-bloggers, drop me an email. There are a couple of things I'd like to discuss with you, and I want to make sure I have eve...

Senator Webb and the Gun: I must admit to serious disappointment in the judgment of Senator Webb's "possee," as the New York T...

Denial & Scapegoating: The Hoover Institute has an excellent writeup on several strains of depature from reality in Western politics. ...

How Not to Reform Welfare: A cautionary lesson from the Philippines : A day-care center owner armed with grenades and guns held more than 30...

Readings on Senatorial Perfidy: The best overall post on the subject is Cassandra's , which demonstrates how cleanly General Petraeus, a...

On "Texas" Ribs: Any recipe that calls for a Phillips-head screwdriver can't be all bad. UPDATE: Six hours later, I can repo...

This Sounds Interesting: Boomsday , a novel in which younger people refuse to pay Social Security benefits for the Baby Boomers, on the grou...

Grim's Been Quiet. What's He Up To? Why, watching things go bang: Click on that image and look at the 'tracers.' Those are...

A Ray of Hope in Palestine? One of the reasons I support the democracy project in the Middle East is the idea that most peoples (broadly spe...

Some Friday Reading: Steve Dillard, better known here as Feddie of the now-retired Southern Appeal, has a letter in the American Spectator ....

Zulu! So. What did you think? I'll start with this: does it make any difference that Hook was really a model soldier ? An excellent f...

"Peace" Rally in Portland: In the comments to a post by BlackFive's Uncle Jimbo , documenting an attack on an Army recruiting ...

Bumperstickers: Dr. Helen has a post on bumper stickers as personality tests. This reminds me of a story. I once drove my wife's truck...

New Links: Karrde has sent me his list of links, and I've re-re-fixed FbL's link to Project VALOUR-IT. With this newest set of link...

Howdy All, I thought I would share a picture of the family as, even in a virtual hall, it's nice to know who your 'speaking' wit...

Decreased Violence. Moral Progress? Division of Labour quotes from and links to a New Republic article (full article requires subscripti...