My wife and I were walking this morning (being in Plano, it was a city walk and not a proper walk), and she commented that the sun fel...

A Relic of A Bygone Era: By the way, who's playing that game this year?

Project VALOUR-IT Annual Fundraiser: It's time again. This year Carrie is the Marine Corps team leader. You can read her thoughts on ...

More on Language and the Mind: An interesting piece expanding on what we are learning about how language informs thought. What it means for...

Conduct Not Befitting a Gentleman: Or, even, any man worthy of the name.

The Lizard Sleeps Tonight: Winter is coming, though it has warmed in the last few days: wet air from the Caribbean. Still, the animals kno...

Priorities: This man has them wrong . The Washington state man who's on a 60-day all-potato diet wishes he had set a goal of one month i...

How Plebe Are You? Mixed results, in my case. The Daily Caller linked to this article , which itself was a reaction to a Ricochet article ,...

Magic Carpets Another plug for the Bing search engine. Yesterday's home picture was an arresting shot, similar to the one here, of some...

War & Conservatives: I have a piece at BLACKFIVE, on a not-very-impressive piece of philosophy that somehow got published by the Chroni...

Speaking of music, I had the pleasure of attending this most wonderful event. The husband of a good friend is one of the performers. I'v...

A Knight's Tale: Venus in an instant : A new meta-analysis study conducted by Syracuse University Professor Stephanie Ortigue reveals fa...

Playing Catch: I'm sure you've all read the latest from Bill, but if you missed it, he's been juggling rockets again . Keep your...

The Birds We caught the tail end of a PBS show tonight about smart crows solving a puzzle that required them to pull up a string, extract a ...

A Slow Weekend: I'm sorry I haven't posted much -- or responded to many thoughtful comments, below -- but I have been busy visiting ...

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 ...