What is that old saying about a woman scorned ? On first glance, it could be the ultimate Valentine's Day card -- a gigantic billboard t...

The Passenger: I was going back through some old archives tonight. A few months ago, Eric posted this video, which has a lot to do with the...

Grim's Tour Guide to Iraq: Hey, I've been to several of these places! Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamina...

Those Who Understand: ...will understand. Cork Hill - Haggis Rampant The Scottish Warpipes are that kind of thing, you know. High Road to Ga...

The Unexamined Life: Via Dad29 : I had read that week an article by Ashley Montagu of Princeton University on what he called “A Life Worth L...

An (Amusing) Weekend Review: So, what's your favorite story here at the start of the weekend? Is it mockery by the Huffington Post bec...

Peasant Burning: Dennis the Peasant is on fire . There's some highly pragmatic, insightful political advice buried amid all that cursin...

This Calls for a Celebration: Pop the champagne -- or whatever other fine wine or ale you may prefer. We should drink to the good people of...

The Deluge: From RCP : AP calls it . Coakley has apparently called Brown and conceded. With 71% in, Brown leads 53 to 46. - Tom Bevan

The Struggle for Public Opinion: Commentary notes some polling : In the survey, only 33 percent say President Obama’s health-reform effort ...

Werewolves of Moscow: From the Financial Times (h/t Arts & Letters Daily ). Every so often, you would see [a stray dog] waiting on a me...

Guardame las Vacas : The tune is named "Guarding the cows." As we know from the sagas of Ireland, this was warrior's work fro...

Grim's Hall Book Club: Bendigo Shafter , Chapters 4-13 Several things happen in this part of the book: 1) The town is set upon by rai...

Indiscernable Identity: There is a thought experiment by the philosopher Max Black that calls into question one of the basic rules of logic:...

From "Hondo": What does that tell you, with all we've spoken of lately on love and honor?

Get 'Em, Buck: I think those two are settling in just fine.

My Favorite Headline From Today: 'Reid says he "won't dwell" on race-based controversy.' That's big of you, Senato...

Bendigo Shafter Chapters 1-3: Now that most of us have the book, we can discuss the first few chapters. In this early phase, L'amour s...

Of Course: Cassandra took the time to run the Futurist's sources for his "Venusian Arts" piece. Here's what she found : T...

The Sandbar Duel: James Bowie gets quite a treatment here: According to William C. Davis, though, he was the most notorious land scam artist...