Piano Envy A friend who can scarcely afford it is making the plunge to buy a 9-foot Baldwin concert grand for her 14-year-old son, who's...

Angel & The Badman A favorite movie of mine is on Hulu: If any of you have dodged my earlier attempts to get you to watch it, take a cou...

Mustard We started harvesting our mustard seed last year and making prepared mustard by grinding the seeds with vinegar and a bit of salt an...

The Peons Get Uppity Last night there was a debate between candidates for Congress from the Illinois 8th District. The moderator was asked ...

Internalism and Externalism: One of the interesting parts of our discussion below, on Hegel and love, is the question of whether you can in ...

Hegel, II: Be sure to read Cassandra's response to our thread below.

Confer:

Hegel on How To Love a Woman: This post arises out of reading Hegel's philosophy of mind , which makes a fairly extraordinary claim abou...

Can't wait till this shows up on netflix. Heh.

Getting the Civil War Right: There are doubtless many who would say that we shouldn't spend a lot of time on the American Civil War at a...

An Illustration: 'You know who's dumb? That Sarah Palin. What an air head she is. Did you hear she said Tea Partiers were going t...

Avalon:

Scuze me while I interject women's work. I highly recommend a pizza stone. Makes a much better homemade pizza than a regular pan. Thi...

A Related Problem: So, we've all been thinking about the problem of female politicians , right? To whit, sexist remarks appear to be hi...

Half a Hooah, Lady: MKH posts a video, and a retraction . I kind of liked the video. The lady writes: As a matter of policy, I don’t commen...

The Stone Mountain Scottish Highland Games: A good time was had by all. Top that, Vegas girl . (Of course the baby wasn't really drinkin...

Socrates: A book review : Socrates's problems were our own. He lived in a city-state that was for the first time working out what role t...

Treason, or Renaissance? On Germany : Watson derives the German genius from deep springs. Germanness as a notion long predated an all-German...

The Orcs of Zork: So, about thirty years ago video games were still in their early stages. There was a kind of video game that as far as I ...

Life Among the Volcanoes I like to use Bing's search engine as my default page, so every morning I'm greeted with a new interesting...