28,000 Dead in England: And on a single day . George Goodwin, who has written a book on Towton to coincide with the battle’s 550th anniversa...

The Book of Psalms: I will be reading the Book of Psalms this month; I am to read five a day, so that we can get through the whole book in ...

I Have Got To Get Me One Of These I ran across this on Power Line http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/12/028038.php . Follow the thi...

"As I Was Going To Kill and All..." Happy new year.

You Know Who Sucks? Modern-day Olympic crew teams, that's who .

It's So Hard: ...to understand the Constitution . After all, being 'over a hundred years old' (and indeed over two hundred) it...

Politics and Brain Size: Conservatives have bigger brains... well, at least, the primitive parts of the brain are bigger . Self-proclaimed r...

The Benefits of Marriage: Is this what you would expect to hear? Compared with those in the early sex group, those who waited until marriag...

Win Some, Lose Some: Proven: dogs are very, very smart ! A border collie called Chaser has been taught the names of 1022 items - more than ...

From the Sword's Point: Did you ever wonder what these guard-changes look like from the sword's point of view? One of the Swedish g...

Faith & Reason, Part II: Continuing with this interesting article , we find another set of arguments. He began by explaining that he be...

In Memoriam : Rest in peace Dr. Denis Dutton , founder and editor of Arts & Letters Daily . We've all benefited from his work over ...

12th Century Science Fiction: I was reading The History of the Holy Grail tonight, which is the first part of the Prose Lancelot -- that m...

Faith & Reason: We were discussing this very topic just a bit below, and today Arts & Letters Daily posts an insightful article on...

Syzygy Christmas morning at mom-in-law's house. The three pups in back are ours, the one first in the row of three being the one in pre...

Kung Fu & Philosophy: An interesting pair of posts by Chinese philosopher Peimin Ni . He makes the interesting leap about two-thirds o...

Irish Crochet Lace My sister, God bless 'er, sent me a fantastically beautiful book for Christmas on making Irish crochet lace. The ins...

Snow on Christmas Day: And on the Feast of Stephen. A fine feast to you all.

On the Feast of Stephen: We know that in Ireland, today is Wren's Day. This involves the funerals for wrens killed by young boys, who c...

Against the Tea Party: The first one, that is. Cassandra raised the question a month or so back; here's the New Yorker , finally catchi...