Ode to the Gun A friend sent me a collection of gun sayings, some I hadn't heard before: "Those who hammer their guns into lows, wi...

Druid Fix Update -- Lights Before I'd used up all the lights in the box, the NPH diffidently suggested there might be enough already. B...

A Poem from 中国: The Nobel Peace Prize is a joke. Except when it's not . I had imagined being there beneath sunlight with the procession...

December Night Sky I've just found a fine site for guiding our night sky observations. I just enjoyed watching all three short videos ...

Druid Fix I have to admit that last year I was -- just very slightly -- disappointed in my Christmas tree. The selection at the local tree-...

Reasons for Hope:

Well. Isn't this interesting . So, other than this having something to do with the situation in Korea, why would you do that in December...

Rest in Peace: My condolences to the friends and family of Elizabeth Edwards .

No Longer Shocked: What happens when the art world can no longer shock us ? [O]nce you've seen Duchamp's "Fountain" and go...

DADT: Cassandra asked for a link to the post I wrote last weekend at BLACKFIVE, Against DADT Repeal . The interesting thing about that post...

The Politics of Disgust and Humanity: The American Spectator has a review of Dr. Martha Nussbaum's book From Disgust to Humanity (hat...

A cappella rhapsody: I just don't seem to be interesting in anything late except food and singing: I'm afraid this is a very silly a...

Mahogany Duck We're thinking the recipe we remember was something like this one , which uses tea, of all things. We had forgotten the t...

Soused Hog's Face Nothing gets the NPH going in the morning like a request for an obscure recipe. He's been pulling all kinds of bo...

A Young Leader I drove to Houston today for a terrific shape-note singing. This youngster is the newest member of an extensive and famous s...

Brined Turkey Mark asked for our turkey brining recipe in a comment below, so here it is, from an old Food & Wine article. This is guar...

Daring: In one of our recent discussions, Ymar asked about the question of whether the 9/11 hijackers demonstrated courage. I answered that...

Competition & Women: We've got some pretty competitive women around here, one of whom wants to talk about this story . So let's...

Legalize What ? This story presents a very good opportunity to discuss that field of philosophy called consequentialism . The research foun...

A "Science" of Literature: There was a time when history went through the same argument . In fact, history went so far down this ...