Dishonor... ...lies in the tale . [W]hen the thin man in a beanie cap, dark clothing and sunglasses pushed a black backpack across the bank ...

Apocalypse porn. The Wall Street Journal has an article on a new wave of disaster movies. "A flood of postapocalyptic stories is now he...

Blanche of Castile: Following up on the post of a few days ago, I thought of doing a series on similar women. Blanche of Castile organized ...

Speaking of Which... A much less important topic, but one in the news today, is the "birther" business. Hot Air mentions a poll ...

Honor Defined: The other day I was asking a boy if he could define "honor." Most people can't. It's a word we use very l...

A Woman's Thoughts on Chivalry: I was updating my links today, long past due! If any of you regular readers have blogs that aren't ...

Hate Speech? Well, we tried to warn you .

Princesses: InstaPundit takes notice of a piece that criticizes women for being "princesses." He comments that he prefers either...

Health Care: Next Step Elise has written a whole series of posts on 1233 , several in response to a fellow Georgia-blogger called "Max...

Jean de Nivelle: Ey, ey, ey, avaunt: Jean de Nivelle est triumphant. Ici , freres et soeurs. Not two months ago I was discussing analytic p...

Author's note:  In the two years after I wrote this post, some excellent female readers, and some others who are friends I know away fro...

Representative Democracy: The people have spoken. Now get to work.

Kindness to Others: Douglas, in the comments to the post on Beauty and Desecration, remarked: "Bring back true chivalry, bring back th...

A Word, Or Rather Not, In Defense of Mrs. Clinton: I would rise to the defense of our Secretary of State against baseless slander , but fran...

Medieval Music: There is a line in the Cantiga 119 video, below, that states that "The use of fifths, coupled with unique phrasing, giv...

Sex, Necessity, and the Tale: I've been following this series of posts, and even made a sketch at a response . But today's entries...

Crying Wolf and Modern Politics: Some of you may have missed Elise's comment on the post below re: the New York Post report that Obama...

Duty to Die: Well, you've probably seen this interview: The President appears to be saying not that the 105 year old lady should have ch...

Music from Cassandra: Cassandra has a post today that I'm tempted to steal reproduce in full. Instead, I'm going to pull my favor...

Moonrise .