Grim's Hall

Ode to the Gun

›
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

›
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 China

›
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

›
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

›
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-...

Hope

›
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...

RIP Elizabeth Edwards

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

No Longer Shocked

›
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

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

Politics

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

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

Competition

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

Legalize

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

Science of Lit

›
A "Science" of Literature: There was a time when history went through the same argument . In fact, history went so far down this ...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.