New Guinea Iceland: An interesting piece from The New Yorker about the rules of honor in New Guinea's "payback culture." Th...

Memento Mori : My sister recommended this gallery of the dead . The photos came from a hospice, and were taken in pairs: one before, and o...

The King Who Sleeps: In our talk about England and Saint George , Joel wrote: A nation that will so publicly sacrifice their heroes and lege...

2 + 2 = Blue Pizza hut fires a deliveryman for defending himself from armed robbery. Turns out, they don't like that he was carrying a...

The Danes Weigh In: ...and once again, we see that beer points the way to wisdom .

Maintaining Our Pron Rating: Since we remain banned at Camp Victory as a pornography site, I feel obligated to maintain our status. Natura...

St. George for Merry England! Gateway Pundit warns us that England has canceled the St. George's Day Parade , which would have featured ...

April 21, 1836 General Sam Houston led 800 Texans against 1400 Mexicans. In the 15-20 minute battle the Texans killed 630, wounded 200, and ...

La Posta di Falcone : If any of you saw Kingdom of Heaven , a movie I disliked the first time I saw it, but like better on each subsequent v...

The Moral: My father sends: The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the...

Sometimes, Even Before: H/t: Euphoric Reality .

Back Again, Mike? Looks like old-time Milblogger Mike the Marine is back out Anbar way. He and I appear to have almost overlapped in Iraq,...

Greyhawk at Home: Hawk is home again, from recent wanderings. He has some thoughts , in his usual form. I've met a few milbloggers, bu...

Touching Lives: The Pope's speech to Americans, which talked about the other day, had the power to move hearts . Even hearts that began...

Tax Week So I've seen a lot of people angry about their taxes this week. I'm not very happy about mine, either. I haven't done...

Changes: Yesterday, Cassandra posted a short photo essay called How We Have Changed , relevant to Joel's post, below. As we also mentio...

"I know it when I see it". American Digest takes a look at...well...something I am finding hard to describe. I'm no stranger t...

ERODING OUR FREEDOMS ONE CRISIS AT A TIME I am about thirty pages from finishing Jonah Goldberg’s fascinating book Liberal Fascism and I ha...

Two citations today, to inform our recent discussion. The first one is from the invaluable book The Archaelogy of Weapons: Arms and Armor...

Ave! Let us hail the Pope on his visit to America. This particular pope is a serious and careful thinker, and agree with him or disagree, ...