Single Combat Between Kings - Alexander very much saw himself as a Homeric leader, and a front-line fighter, but the Oriental despots he fou...

"We have decided to wait until the Russians send the money." BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan's parliament will delay a v...

"Not quite Jörmungandr" -- Reading a line like that, I couldn't resist linking to this.

Fringes: Cassandra has a post on the Superbowl commercials -- which I will not see until starting 1800 tomorrow, which is 1000 your time, so...

Congratulations to the People of Iraq: Today's elections will, I expect, go largely unnoticed back home. In a way that is a mark of the...

I'll bet this is a lot funnier to me than to others around here. WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama expressed frustration Wednesday after...

An Article to Discuss: I wish I had time to engage this article as fully as I would like. Hutchins’s models of a collegiate education were ...

Across the Euphrates: Some of you may recognize the bridge. If you don't recognize the bridge, it has an interesting backstory . The ele...

The guy over at the Volokh conspiracy is right; this is just creepy. (catch it at 3:54) I could make all sorts of rude jokes on this, but I ...

Fort Apache: I was out at what used to be PB Inchon the other day -- not too long ago a real "Fort Apache." It's been turned ...

Sheep by the Water, Qarghuli Tribal Region:

Bill Faith: It was with surprise that I read in my email that Bill Faith has died. Bill Faith was the blogger who wrote "Small Town Ve...

Dead stick into the Hudson river. I used to live on the Jersey side of the Hudson. Its pretty big, actually. But I wouldn't want to try ...

The Exclusionary Rule and Heroic Disobedience: Yesterday, Jonah Goldberg at NRO published this article on the exclusionary rule (evidence o...

This is Awesome: No, really . H/t Cass .

Feral Dogs In The Mada'in:

Thank You, Mr. Broccoli: A bold plan to restore glory to the Colosseum : Gladiators are to return to Rome's most famous fight arena almo...

Dennis the Peasant is an accountant by trade. Its always interesting (to me anyway) to see a SME (Subject Matter Expert) comment on people ...

Proportionality - a Reminder Terms like "proportional" and "disproportionate" are being thrown around in relation to cur...

Happy New Year, everybody.