Currahee! I took a few hours today to spend with Currahee Mountain . Here is a short movie of the view from the top.

Cyberwar The more I read about the Stuxnet worm the more interesting it gets. This clever weapon was designed to lurk in personal computer...

Vikings and the Indian Maiden: So you're a viking, and you go out to take a look to see what's out west. Naturally, you're goin...

The Onion on the President: The Onion had two pieces skewering the president this week, one in print and one on video. Obama Outlines Mo...

The Prodigal Teen Sailors Perhaps most of you already have caught this wonderful Thanksgiving story on the news or in the local paper , but ...

Thanksgiving: Happy Thanksgiving. (Image from DVIDs, photo by Brian Ferguson. Pvt. Carlos Ortiz walks from the serving line at Forward Oper...

Oh, Yes: It's obvious to me now, and I don't see how I never thought of it before: the turkey needs to be bacon-wrapped this year....

You might as well call it the heartbeat of God and be done with it. The current widely-held theory of life, the universe, and everything hol...

The Seven-Day Week Over at Brandywine Books [link corrected -- thanks, Lars!] they linked to an article about "the book you've alw...

Meat Happy Birthday to the NPH. Part of his birthday present was the encyclopedic River Cottage Meat Book , which we've both been enjoy...

What a Great Idea: A new amendment to increase Federalism is coming before the new Congress. It's one of the better ideas I've hea...

Flexibility: Unlike some of the Woodstock veterans, some people never rethink their college-day assumptions . For help understanding the for...

Dartmouth: Fire in the hole : In 2006, The Dartmouth , the student newspaper of Dartmouth College, a liberal arts college in New Hampshire, ...

Will Quote: Here : The average American has regular contact with the federal government at three points - the IRS, the post office and the T...

Day By Day: I've added Day By Day to the sidebar. I realized tonight I've missed a week of it, because I always read it on Cassand...

Conspiracy: You know who's conspiring to wreck the country? Those darn Republicans : Consider a thought experiment. Imagine you active...

Courtesy: ...in which the Governor of New Jersey has a polite conversation with the head of the state teachers' union. "I don't...

(Don't) Talk Like a Yankee: To go with T99's post about Dixie language from yesterday, this article on New Yorkers who are trying t...

A Good Point about Public Virtue: Here : he cultural problem that we have today is something that Machiavelli identified over 500 years ago....

Suicide: We must take a moment to mark the passing of CDR Dennis Rocheford , chaplain, Catholic priest, and a man whom you will understand l...