Madness: The Independent writes : [W]hat, if anything, could possibly link minds that gave the world the theory of relativity, great surrea...

Tuesday Lyrics (because, why not?) - Here's a YouTube video of a song I've always liked, "Twa Recruiting Sergeants," poin...

Iranian Airstrikes: We've let the Turks get away with this kind of thing before, so now Iran wants to play : It is a serious development...

Are Giant Ravens Next? - All right, you fantasists, here's a bit of Alaskan prehistory from Not Exactly Rocket Science. But he forgot ...

Someone told me It's all happening at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it's true. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm.

Oh yeah, I'm sure that's going to work. Update and bumped: Uh-oh. The General is stepping up his rhetoric . Gen. David Petraeus , co...

Taji: I'm in Taji this week, guest-instructing a couple of classes in my area of specialization at the COIN Academy. When not teaching,...

Didn't Dante write that the lowest level in hell is reserved for traitors? See you in hell, Arlen !

Port Goss is slack-jawed . Umm, gee, what did you really expect? That Pelosi is going to tell the truth?

I'm going to fisk this. When rapturous Germans tore down the Berlin Wall 20 years ago it symbolized far more than the overcoming of an a...

"The Revenge of Geography" Robert Kaplan has a worthy piece in this month's Foreign Policy . There's quite a lot in it w...

Headlines: So I opened up the news today, and I see the following headlines: Dems: Texas Governor Should Reject Secession. Guns: A Better ...

Lex Naturalis : An ongoing (and interesting) discussion in the thymos post, below , makes me want to revisit the concept of "natural l...

Bumped: 1 in custody, 3 overboard. "Defense Department officials confirmed that one pirate is in custody. A U.S. official said the stat...

Easter MMIX This is the second Easter in a row I've spent in Iraq. This morning's service at sunrise was nice, and it is good to sp...

Ruthless: " U.S. warships and helicopters stalked a lifeboat holding an American sea captain and his four Somali captors Sunday, while...

Art and Literature: From Arts & Letters Daily , two pieces: Is Grand Theft Auto IV a kind of art? Is the Bible a kind of literature? To ...

Judging Stephens: The Honorable Ted Stephens has been vindicated ! The judge today overturned his conviction entirely, and ordered an inves...

Headline Contest: For this article . "Women Smell More Than Men." "Proof: Women Are Better Than Men, But Dogs Are Still Bett...

Thymos From World Affairs Journal , an article that puts the right name to the issue we've been discussing lately. Having largely (and...