A Boy Leaves Home: In this scene from La Nef's "Perceval: La Quete Du Graal" , Perceval asks his mother to get him something ...

Professor of Law: The lady gives him too much credit. It was not expertise in the law that led him to bait the Supreme Court before the uni...

Instapunk is in despair . Now, I tend to think Instapunk has been overwrought of late, but he's got a point here. I want to know how the...

Play Deguello : The end is nigh .

Press: Actually, We Haven't The Slightest Idea What's Up With The Economy For several months, every time an unemployment report sho...

Nashville: Looks like fun. As much as I like a kilt, though, I'm not sure it's all that effective as a political ploy. One of the th...

The Beatings Will Improve Morale: According to my morning's email, Tartanic has agreed to come down to play in Georgia for the first tim...

Art & Duty: What do we make of a case like this ? (H/t: Arts & Letters Daily .) [Children's book author Remi] chose to spend th...

Heh. Just Heh. I have a couple friends like this guy. It's good to have friends.

Shut Them Out: The Politico reports : President Obama's back is against the wall, so he's getting in touch with his inner Agnew, hit...

Easy = True: The Boston Globe has a story about how the brain handles difficulty . Short version: it's very suspicious of it. A handf...

Putnam's Example: We've been discussing Williamson's epistemology in the comments to a post below. The book is actually availab...

Shorter Than Usual: Didn't we just hear the President say that government needed to tighten it's belt? Families across the country ...

The Sun, Moon, And Stars: The Cherry Tree Carol - The Ba... "...shall sail under thy feet."

New CPR Method: I have to admit, since this came from DL Sly, that I didn't look it at first in the assumption that it was a joke of som...

Grim's Hall Book Club: Bendigo Shafter , Chapters 24-33 Two things happen at the beginning of this section that are of special interest...

Fantasy v. Reality: I thought this video had some good points. Especially about 'Our old pal, the sacred Earth.' Not that the ear...

On Love: Our last discussion on Chaucer took an emphatic, and unexpected, turn in the comments. For that reason I'd like to refer to th...

Jim Webb For President? Back when he was first running for Senator, I supported Jim Webb. I admired him for his career of service and for h...

Really? Wasn't this story in the Onion a few months ago? The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the le...