I highly recommend seeing Chanticleer perform, for the Christmas holiday, in the Medieval Hall, where the beautiful creche is displayed ev...

A Non-Ambush "Ambush": Here's a third example to round out our series on so-called 'guerrilla' tactics in politics. T...

Now This Is Exactly What I'm Talking About: Andrew Sullivan cites this video , saying, "Finally, a way to respond to holy rollers, ...

Plotinus and the Television Analogy: In our recent discussion on faerie creatures, T99 suggested that she had a Platonist model of conscious...

Guns: A Tale of Two Traditions For a special day at school, a Rhode Island 8-year-old decorated a hat with patriotic themes, including...

How About a More Complete Rollover? Sally Quinn's article making the rounds suggests that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden switch jobs . I...

Great Headlines of the World: From Reuters today: "Global Organized Crime Becoming New Superpower: U.N." It's good to see so...

What An Entrance: I'm reading Parzival , as I mentioned. One of the striking things about it is the German High Medieval sense of the a...

The States v. the Feds: Eric has occasionally remarked that we should be of peacable mind about about the state of the union, until we start...

"Demi-God..." I Like the Sound of That: It has a certain ring , doesn't it? If you’re a 30-something dude and this doesn’t des...

More on Diplomatic Betrayal and Duplicity If this isn’t a story made for a screenplay to rival “Lawrence of Arabia,” I don’t know what is. ...

Iran, A Year Since: Former CIA case officer Reuel Marc Gerecht writes about the Iranian protests: how they came about, why they didn't...

The Art of Euphemism The Net is abuzz, including at Cassandra’s place, with the sad spectacle of a blogger threatening a series of critics w...

Minnie the Moocher: Georgia is not among the top states when it comes to mooching.

Bad Medicine: “His aides from the Senate, the presidential campaign, and the White House routinely described him with the same words : ‘psyc...

The Challenger: So, here's a commercial for the poor man's Mustang.* This is one of those silly counterfactual things, with modern t...

No Harm, No Foul: I've waited a bit to speak to this, and at last I am going to do so on the other side from what you may expect. Altho...

Music for Ivanhoe : Sometime during the future, we will need to read Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe for the GHBC. It was a book of tremend...

Ich bin ein Gulf Koaster Hotair.com reports that our President is marginalizing the oil spill as "Other" in a way he'd never ...

Winners Never Prosper A story that was making the rounds in the Internet this week seemed too ridiculously entertaining to be true. Seve...