FREEDOM AND THE HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC Those are the themes of two books that I enthusiastically recommend to the readers of this fine blog....

Torture, Virtue & Virtue Ethics: We've talked about the famous Zimbardo study before, where people were divided into prisoners and p...

A Mother's Love: Something I wish I'd understood earlier in life is how much my parents loved me. It's something you don't ...

JSOTF-P Part II: The second part of that series is now up. As I noted at BlackFive , the MILF and the AFP held a joint medical operation th...

Wednesday Links: I'm sorry I haven't had time to do the usual analysis and thought pieces. I'd like to do more of that, but the...

Fear Mongering, Dirty, Lowdown Lying Swift Boating Haters of Hate!!!! Will the filthy, intolerant Swift Boating Haters of Hate never stop? E...

The Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refuses to accept final death appeals outside of working hours. This pisses off ...

"Unnecessary Force" Congratulations to Uncle Jimbo of BLACKFIVE for his first starring role in a feature film . Speaking of unnece...

Sunday Notes: Miss Ladybug has a book review that might be of interest to you. The wags at Arts & Letters Daily linked to this article...

A tribute to Al Gore, our rightful President; a man for our times :

Why I don't trust SWAT teams:

Rum, vodka, and whisky. Besides being great drinks... they are also the cure for severe poising. Dr Fraser said: “He managed to go through ...

Happy Birthday to Me: My birthday starts in about three hours here, or seven hours there. I'll be spending part of it working, of cours...

Burying the Lede on Army Recruiting Why, oh why am I not surprised it took until halfway through the WaPo's article on Army recruiting t...

Jackbooted Oppression Alert!!! Now the BushReich is forcing their antediluvian, Red State values on SouthWest Airlines: A video on Breitbar...

Greetings from Camp Victory: I'm here now. I don't have a lot of time to blog, because (a) I can't do it on official computers ...

SERINITY THE SEQUAL According to this story there is talk about making a sequel to Serenity. As a dyed in the wool Firefly fan I find this ...

Big Yellow Clue Bus Finally Stops At Yale.... ...thus proving a fancy Ivy League education does produce *some* critical thinking skills : Ya...

THE PHONEY CONTROVERSEY OVER RUSH LIMBAUGH’S COMMENTS The non-story about Media Matters misrepresentation about Rush Limbaugh’s comment abou...

" David Hume was talking bullshit " -One of the commentors, over at Samizdata. At least it's not mincing words. Heh. The post ...