"Put him in Camp Bucca" It occurs to me that if you can make a comedy prank show out of planting fake IED's in celebrities...

They Walk Among Us I like to write movie reviews on Netflix, and to create "Lists" there. (They call them "Top Ten" lis...

Reason and Evolution: I doubt that this gentleman and I see eye-to-eye on everything, but I also believe in the power of evolutionary theory...

OK, and Along Those Same Lines Tracey Ullman puts the same song to excellent use in this skit, a favorite of mine:

Lions and Birds: We've talked about this before, but it's worth looking at again given that Mark Steyn has written about it lately. ...

The Viking Gateway: From TYWKIWDBI ("Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently") comes this : [I]n norther...

How Did You Learn to Read? Having no children in school (or anywhere else), I've had no dog in the fight over techniques for teaching li...

Lives Well Lived What do people regret from their deathbeds? A palliative care nurse reports that her dying patients felt that they'd ...

Other Remedies: Having closed the last inquiry, then, let us examine other ways in which we might be able to repair -- or if need be, restor...

Limits: Some Concluding Remarks Eric says that he doesn't like the talk of limiting the franchise; he's not the first to say so. W...

Yay, Juliette! Baldilocks gets a cartoon . Nobody's ever made a cartoon about me; but, on reflection, that's probably just as well.

Crusaders: Since 9/11, there have been a number of books and articles re-fighting the legacy of the Crusades. In particular, the slaughter ...

The Lifecycle of a Government Program: Once upon a time, when the city of Atlanta was growing by leaps and bounds, the Georgia Department of...

[This post is a propos Grim's "Even More on the Franchise," shortly below. Sorry for the long post….] It's not strictly...

Animal Rescue My neighbors and I all agree, in an adult and responsible way, that you can't go rescuing every animal. It stands to reas...

Tolerance vs. Approval American Digest's Vanderleun addresses a distinction I've often struggled to make between the desirability o...

Corrections: I have fixed many broken links today, especially on the sidebar. The switch to a weekly rather than monthly archive has allowe...

M.C. Quine: Today's xkcd has an inside joke that is probably only funny to philosophers . That's a rare beast: but see also here ...

Njal's Saga : Part Seven I completely failed to post an entry last week, for which I humbly apologize to those of you who have been wait...

Even More on the Franchise: My expectation is that most of you are beginning to bore of this topic, so I appreciate your indulgence as I mak...