On Social Science: This piece has some interesting harmonies with our discussion, below, on infinity and mysticism. Prior to the launch of ...

"The Ruins of Viking Boston" A great line from the Boston Globe, in a story on how their city got so many Viking flourishes . At M...

The Mead Hall : Mary Sevelli's Tastes of Anglo-Saxon England has a recipe for mead. It requires three pounds of honey, so for a long t...

Swedish Rockabilly: Apparently... yes. Gotta watch twenty-two seconds into this one. If you don't like Sweden, how about Singapore?

I've Got Good News and Bad News: Apparently asking for advice is really, really bad . Fortunately, I never do that. Among the findings:...

Making The Constitution Up As We Go Along: So the other day we noticed Rep. Stark saying that the Constitution contained no meaningful restr...

∞ An ancient question: how many numbers are there ? In the sixth century B.C.E. Anaximander of Miletus gave a name to the infinite, calling...

Hitchens on "The Topic of Cancer": The man continues to write very well, and with great courage. It's hard not to admire and l...

Great Moments in Campaign Slogans Sharron Angle isn't turning out to be a very good candidate, but I've got to hand it to her on her...

Great News The AP says everything's fine in the Gulf now, move along, nothing to see here. A full 75% of the Deepwater spill was skimm...

Not What the Patients Ordered From "Dave in Texas" at Ace : Missouri has held the first of 3 (I think) state referendums on Obama...

Old Hickory: Distinctive Unit Insignia of the "Old Hickory" Brigade, 30th HBCT Major Joel Leggett drops by to mention, in the comm...

The Tax Worm Ouroboros As reported at NBCWashington (h/t HotAir ), the District of Columbia funds a Summer Youth Employment Program relies ...

A Time to Fight A new article by George Parker in The New Yorker decries "partisanship" in the U.S. Senate from the point of view...

Monuments: Here is the White House's chosen response to the news that a constitutional challenge to their health care mandate has been p...

Mair's Longsword: Thanks to reader B.M. who kindly sent a link to a beautifully crafted edition of Paul Mair's longsword manual, in ...

One for Eric: ...who has doubtless already seen it . But just in case! Scholars discovered the 100-yard-wide (90-metre-wide) canal at Portu...

Old Friends: Doc Russia writes : The last place I drove to was the recruiter's office. The Marine recruiter was not in, and I was a litt...

Stay Home, Mr. President: Georgia would just as soon you not drop by . At least, Democrats in Georgia feel that way. The President will fly...

Grim is going to like this one . When one thinks of heraldry, images of the lion and the unicorn most often spring to mind. In Papua New Gui...