A Poem of Torment: From A Celtic Miscellany , entry 52. The poet is an Irish man called Uilliam Ruadh (which is to say, "Red William...

A Sign: Two million people came to protest creeping socialism; one of them brought a sign.

Enid & Geraint: Once strong, from solid Camelot he came Glory with him, Geraint, Whose sword tamed the wild. Fabled the fortune he won, ...

Up The Trail: Just a pretty afternoon ride in the late summer of Georgia. Nothing special about it; but the wife is aboard her new Tennesse...

ACORN: Via Southern Appeal , I learned quite a bit about the kind of services ACORN can offer. I'd like to believe this video was faked....

I skipped the umpteenth rendition of the Obama-Health-Care speech -- either the twenty-eighth such speech, or the 121st, depending on how yo...

大跃进: China is better than us in some ways, says Mr. Thomas Friedman : One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by...

This Should Work: So you want to "regain traction" on health care/insurance reform. What does that mean? Well, it means you ...

Kill a Man - Marry His Widow? In childhood, I remember having one of those books of random facts and trivia (I believe it was Felton & F...

"Sober Men and True" Since we were just speaking of Western songs, what about the ones they actually sang in the West? This is an...

Stray Western Winds: It's been a while since we had such music as in the last post; as it'd been a while since we had horse pictures...

Road to Kaintuck: Some lovely ladies sing the old Johnny Cash classic: But perhaps you've forgotten the original: From the old days, whe...

Mainstreaming Nonsense: I've been trying to decide what to say about this essay on intelligence and education among conservatives. I v...

"The Veal Pens": Do you know what the term means in the modern political context? Why, it means that Obama values liberals for th...

Post-Scarcity Economics & the Middle Ages: Via Arts & Letters Daily , an interesting but flawed approach to revising economic histo...

Where Can You Go From President? I suppose we should have seen this coming. The man's been on the job for seven months; his record indi...

Sigh... The last post points to the good things available in life, this time of year. It's terrible to think that those pleasures will ...

Late Summer: It is that wonderful time of the year when a man can get both good October beer, and fresh peppers from his garden. Here is ye...

A Ruling: You might like to know that Miss Manners (whose column is listed under the "Admired Voices" section of the sidebar) has ...

Painless Cattle: Popular Science asks, "Is it ethical to engineer delicious cows that feel no pain?" The answer is that of cours...