Happy Tartan Day: Absinthe & Cookies once again hosts the "Gathering of the Blogs." Today is Tartan Day , a day established ...

Civilization & the Time Traveler: Eric Blair -- who is either a supervillain or a camel-like space alien , but who has apparently excel...

A Cheer for the BSA: It's hard to imagine any case in which I'd side against the Boy Scouts of America, who must be the finest youth...

"The Pirate Queen" Any readers in NYC who might enjoy a Broadway show are invited to let me know if this is any good. I can'...

American Heroes: The DOD is doing something very sharp: giving us heroes. That is, it's taking the time to introduce us to them: Army...

Huh? Florida commits suicide , or at least you'd think so, by inviting almost all felons to vote in her elections. That strikes me as m...

A Texas Spring: Miss Ladybug sends a post on Texas Bluebonnets , the colorful flowers that mark the arrival of spring. She includes photos ...

Surge Sign: I don't do day to day news roundups, for the obvious reason that there are a lot of places that have the money and manpower ...

Pelosi & the Headscarf: I apparently have misjudged something Speaker Pelosi did. This morning I complained about her choosing to wear ...

Crossing the Wilderness III: Kim du Toit is having the next go-round of the game. We played the last time , thanks to Doc Russia tapping G...

Thinking Blogger Awards: We've been nominated for an award in the Thinking Blogger contest. I'm not sure Grim's Hall has ever...

VictoryPAC: Armed Liberal of Winds of Change would like you to know about his new venture, VictoryPAC . You've probably seen the video ...

Site Changes: The contract I signed with Pajamas Media ended on 1 April. Though I elected not to continue as a PJM blog, I'd like it un...

Steven Pinker, Decreased Violence, Moral Progress - III Happily, as Grim has shown, Prof. Pinker's New Republic article is now in the ...

Movie Review: From Fox : The best movie so far of 2007 is one in which Rose McGowan, best known to TV audiences as a kind witch on "Cha...

"War for Profit" I have a new piece up at BlackFive by that title.

Of Self-Defense and Texas In the comments to my last post, we struck up a conversation about self-defense and the "castle rule." ...

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 ...