Crusaders: I know the officer who wrote this . Good man.

Enjoy this, Grim! That was a good king! via American Digest , who brings up in his own way, my point about technology and entertainment, but...

Monkeysuits and Manners. The guys over at Instapunk have an interesting post concerning the recent White House Correspondents' Associat...

Obama's War. WASHINGTON, May 11, 2009 – Citing the need for new thinking and new ideas in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates...

Well, Now: Here's an interesting -- if unproven -- theory : [T]he painter Vincent van Gogh did not slice off his left ear in a fit of ma...

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...