Sport: As the Olympics continue, we see some sports that were originally martial in origin. This reminds us of the Laches , in which Socrat...

Well, We Can Too: Feddie at Southern Appeal has a little Notre Dame film up, "Just because I can." They have to make films, beca...

Time To Buy Some Chickens: This is an outstanding idea.

McCain and Religion: We looked at an article on Sen. Obama's faith the other day ; here's one on Sen. McCain's . It's a ver...

An American Carol Now this is kind of remarkable: That's a fair set of big Hollywood names, thrashing a well-known and influential filmm...

A Very Good Point from XKCD:

OK... I get about three of these conspiracy-theory mails a week from friends and family. I think I can honestly say that I've been dili...

Edward Luttwak Strikes Again! Goodness knows we've had our disputes with, or about, the writings of Edward Luttwak. His COIN theory dre...

Male/Female by Website: I see Cassidy is in a panic over her male/female rating . No need to worry! The program is very poorly designed. ...

Locating Authority: Via both our friend Dad29 and our friend Feddie at Southern Appeal , a little lesson in authority . From the Westminste...

Oh, Dear. Victor, the Victory Elephant? I am not sure why I get RNC emails, since I know I've never sent them any money; maybe they shar...

Learning to hunt . Everything old is new again. Hunting used to be one of those skills that was always wanted for soldiers. The Roman author...

Today, Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, has a letter in The Wall Street Journal . Arts & Letters Daily has several backg...

A Further Thrust: Looking a bit more into the sword site, I found this video: It starts simply, but moves on to show some sword-binding and...

Sabers and Spurs: I join Kat at the Castle in congratulating our womens' saber team for their sweep at the Olympics. Strong work. On w...

Solidarity Between the Georgias: I met some fine soldiers from the Republic of Georgia in Iraq, where they have heretofore kept a brigade of...

What? Via our friend and regular commenter Dad29 , an oddity . And so, last Friday, in stumbled Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Saxby Cham...

Another Judicial Outrage: Assuming the facts are even close to what is presented here ... As Elaine Jones said in a letter published by the ...

A Satisfied Woman Speaks: A quote for the ages : I am now the happiest woman on earth. When you marry a man with 86 wives you know he knows ...

Women and Senators First: So we've seen the story about the idiot bail bondsman from Florida . "Man held in Fla. on charge of thre...