Representative Giffords: I imagine that we all wish the Honorable Representative Giffords a speedy and complete recovery . VCDL notes: ...

A Modest Proposal I recommend The Word Detective for his frequent columns about obscure word usage. If you subscribe, you get periodic ema...

Arise Ye Dead Boy, it's nice to rejoin the living. Lately even my dreams have been full of finicky footnotes to authority. I'm vis...

Human Shields It was an "I am Spartacus" moment : Egyptian Muslims who were horrified by the recent attack on Coptic Christians s...

The Fifth: We saw this performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a gymnasium in Hangzhou, China. They were very professional, and t...

One Hundred Years: Hail and praise the Colt 1911, one hundred years old this year. I am sure that Doc Russia will be celebrating!

The Great TSA Opt-Out: Who was the genius who wrote this law ? Thanks to an “opt-out” provision written into the Act, these contracts are a ...

Useless: An education shouldn't be useful, argues The Public Discourse . For the most part, though, books and articles discussing what h...

Medieval Misconceptions: Yesterday both Dad29 and xkcd directed our attention to some documents that fight common misconceptions. Dad29 po...

Ha-Ha! I think that's done it! You will notice a pair of icons, one red and one white, above and below the Chesterton poem on the head ...

Hard & Crunchy on the Outside, Soft & Chewy on the Inside Like the old joke about the igloo. This article makes you wonder how lon...

Psalm 23: Today is the day for the 23rd Psalm. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he lea...

Time for a Poll: Today's question: Is the philosophy of chivalry that I espouse misandrist or misogynist ? Misandrist or Misogynist? M...

Against the Drug War: This is a pretty good argument : Now, one thing Darnell could do is get his GED, and meanwhile get a job stocking shel...

Colors and Readability: Grim's Hall has been around since 2003. In those nearly eight years, I suspect my eyes have gotten worse. This...

ERA: I am looking for reports of Justice Scalia's remarks that cite the never-ratified 'Equal Rights Amendment' (ERA). Here...

The Ur-Road Trip I'm coming up for air briefly while the people for whom I've been madly writing a brief finally look at it before w...

Why Literature? The point is raised regarding the new... ah... "translation" of Mark Twain . What is the point of literature? For...

Glorious Abduction : UPDATE: And if we're doing this sort of thing tonight, I don't think I've ever referenced the greatest of a...

Morale: I suspect this is the sort of thing we'll look back on with regret.