Natural Theology: In a review of books, a comment on political philosophy : But there is no denying [John Gray's] central insight, which...

The Time of Cholera What happens when over 10% of the population of a nuclear power is homeless , a $2 billion cotton crop is destroyed, 1.7...

Real or Fake? H/t: Wintry Knight . So... this is a joke, right? Well, no ... not exactly .

Cowgirls: Not as Universal, Still Pretty Awesome H/t: T99's favorite blog . Aside from this one, of course.

Tale of the Tigers : Juliette Ochieng -- or "Baldilocks," as longtime readers will remember her -- is a friend who is also an auth...

Cowboys are universal. These sorts of mash-ups amuse me to no end. Like this sort of remake of Leone's magnum opus: Heh.

Little Looter: A writer mocks Ayn Rand : When little Aiden toddled up our daughter Johanna and asked to play with her Elmo ball, he was, adm...

Moses 7:63 "Then shalt thou and all thy city meet them there, and we will receive them into our bosom, and they shall see us; and we wi...

Impact Craters What with my fixation on apocalypse, you can imagine that I'm crazy for the geological evidence for impact craters. Lots...

Whose Side Are You On? Democrats cut funding for food stamps , to provide money for government employees to stay on payroll. The pose of be...

Death and Survival: Is it really true, what the author says ? The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his...

Five for Six: Mrs. Palin's effort to swing the race for governor in Georgia appears to have failed. With 86% reporting, there is a very...

Useful furniture . Because, you never know.

A Natural Nuclear Reactor Almost forty years ago, analysts at a French nuclear fuel-processing plant stumbled on startling evidence from the...

A Lady from South Carolina: My father sends. It's true what she says .

Out East: A man's got to go somewhere . ...in the 1820s young Benjamin Disraeli found The Arabian Nights an enchanting alternative to h...

Puzzles, and Perfect Beauty: That is the name of this group's album . Here is a piece that starts with a two minute percussion solo, an...

Njal's Saga , Week Five: Image from a Clan McLeod piper's webpage. I should begin by noting that Lars Walker had a post up earlier ...

Bel M'es Qu'eu Chant :

Farewell to the Chief Our small town said goodbye today to its Assistant Fire Chief (and former longtime Chief), who died at the age of only...