More on Immigration and Europe: The National Interest has a piece that suggests that Europe is necessarily becoming more Islamic... but, a...

Merry Men: So, did you see it? There's probably still time to find a theater where it is playing.

An Icon Passes: It would probably be difficult to explain to someone, even a few years younger than I am myself, why Gary Coleman was import...

Where Does the Money Come From? Say, who's paying for all this stuff that drives up the National Debt? By the way, where does the gover...

Immigration: What constitutes a wise immigration policy? We normally speak of the issue in terms of illegal immigration, but we also do hav...

This childhood book of mine probably explains a lot about about my enjoying Grim's Hall so. I was reminded of the book by the photo of C...

"Evolution & Creativity" An interesting article, which T99 cited over at Cassandra's place, is this one from the Wall Str...

Mabinogi : The Fifth Branch... [T}he existence of the ‘fifth branch of the Mabinogi’, Amaethon uab Don, was unsuspected until very recently,...

The Merry Spring: I remember that once I read a piece by a farmer, who was writing about environmentalists; he said that, in his experience,...

The Feast of Pentecost: Today was Pentecost, the 'fiftieth day' after Easter, on which the Holy Spirit was supposed to have descende...

"Within Minutes" People sometimes say, "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." Apparently that's tr...

Entailment: Rand Paul, of whom I had heard once or twice in passing before a few days ago, is probably the most talked about man on the inte...

Enemies Are Good For You: An interesting proposition : Really gotta love results of UCLA research involving 2,003 middle school children tha...

Since We're Doing Music: ...and good lads from Texas, Doc Russia had a piece up just recently. He adds: Yeah, I look back at a lot of th...

"Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" Reason Magazine posts the winners . But you know, consider this claim: Similarly, the invocation of...

Daniel's Favorite: Our co-blogger Daneil, USMC, sends this as a favorite for the music thread:

Coq au Vin : We had one of those rare but prized visits from my sister, last night. I made a dish whose recipe allegedly dates to Julius Ca...

A Civil Servant's Poetry: Here lies what’s left of Michael Juster, A failure filled with bile and bluster. Regard the scuttlebutt as tru...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2010/04/19/did-vikings-really-wear-horned-helmets.aspx?obref=obnetwork Not sure I trust ...

...Is A Man's Best Hedge Against the Vague Uncertainties of Life. There's some fair practical advice on offer in this little bit of ...