China's Doom: All that rapid progress, growth and expansion you've been reading about for several years? It's over -- they'...

Miss Ladybug: ML kindly sends me updates to her stuff on a regular basis; I always intend to link to her, and always forget to do so. Pleas...

You Get All Dressed Up, You Get Taken Somewhere Fun: Doc would like you to meet Vera . If you were here, Doc, you could take her to church ...

Well, heeeelllllooooo Ashleigh. Iowa Soldiers Deploy

Troll Misidentification: The other day we talked about the problem of misidentifying defenders as vandals, in The Ecology of Trolls . Today...

Cooper, Dr. Helen, and COIN: Dr. Helen rereads a classic , and worries about whether the values of Colonel Cooper are drowning under "T...

SOUTHERN APPEAL IS BACK! Spread the news. Feddie has decided to start Southern Appeal back up. Stop by his blog and give him an encouragin...

A Socratic Moment: Fafhrd once traveled to Tyre, in Adept's Gambit , where he found himself in conversation with a student of philosoph...

Requiescat In Pace Gary Gygax: Readers are either asking themselves, "Who was Gary Gygax?"; or, they're making puns . No har...

The Ecology of Trolls: In a charming article on Wikipedia , Nicholson Baker talks about the rise of vandals: The Pop-Tarts page is often afl...

No Good Stories: I don't really have any good stories tonight. I've been blogging more mostly because Camp Victory now has wireless...

Cosmic Favors: It is a kindness from the fabric of the universe itself that Cassandra's husband returned before the Washington Post pub...

They don't call it the suck for nothing. LT G got dumped . I saw that in peacetime, and it sucked then. At least he's taking better ...

King Arthur in Baghdad: Though not a Paladin , King Arthur was Charlemagne's chief competitor as a legendary symbol around whose court c...

Pandora's Box: Let's watch this video: Did you guess who this ad was for before the end? The New Republic and I, for once, had the...

Who Do You Love? Foreign Policy asked a few thousand field-grade and general/flag officers, serving and retired, some questions : When aske...

Yes, We Can! Victory through mockery; at least, where mockery is deserved. InstaPundit : INTERESTING NEW POLL: Pew: Majority now believe U....

Respect & Honor: From a fourteen year old, at that : When I think of an American soldier, four words come to mind, Honor, Respect, Freed...

Prince Harry wins his spurs . I'm sure Grim approves. I want to know if he helps clean the .50.

On Mead: Slate has an article on resurgent meads : Judging by the prominence of honey these days, you'd think there's a run on suga...