Gone I had to help him go in the end, after all. We buried him where we're going to plant a new apple tree.

Lady Charlotte Guest: I knew her, as you probably do as well, as the translator of the Mabinogion , which brought us the old Welsh tales of ...

I Stand Corrected: How many spaces go after a period ? Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It's one of the canonical ...

Good Old Hans: Talhoffer, that is. National Geographic has been working on a story regarding his fightbook. They've re-enacted certai...

Metaphysics: Via xkcd . There is an additional comment, if you leave your mouse hanging over the original, which reads: "Eäendil will ...

Sir Walter Scott on the Roots of Chivalry's Attitude to Women: One of the less-well-read works of Scott's is his long-form essay on ...

Mr. Brooks on Civility: In all the recent fulminating about civility, I haven't seen anything of worth until today. Mr. Brooks' col...

Congress Doesn't Care: How well do you know the Constitution? Presumably, most of you will join me in scoring 100% on this embarrassing...

Arts & Sciences: The interaction between the arts and the sciences is sometimes noteworthy : It was Galileo who conclusively swept away ...

Time To Go Out: Snow and ice are still on the local roads. Georgia doesn't quite know how to deal with that. All the same, I've go...

The TEA Party, History, and "Memory": Dr. Jill Lepore, historian, has written a new book scorning the TEA Party . Throughout her b...

"Eek!" So says writer Lenore Skenazy, about men : Gripped by pedophile panic, we jump to the very worst, even least likely, conclu...

Oh, Sure: I see how it is : [W]omen in their fertile phase are more likely to fantasize about masculine-looking men... Meanwhile, a man'...

Dangerous Ideas From a commenter at Ann Althouse : "Anyone else find it creepy that the new standard of what we may and may not say is...

The Virtues of Obedience: A great deal of discussion has arisen about the article " Why Chinese Mothers are Superior ." Cassandra...

Privacy A neighbor sent me an alarmed email about a new site, www.spokeo.com, where you can type in a name and get all kinds of personal inf...

"Let's Roll" No one actually said that, of course, but I take some comfort in reading that three men and one woman had the pre...

Snowfall: It's just starting here, but I hear reports of four inches closer to Atlanta. I spent the day sawing wood -- not to lay in fi...

Politics & Violence: I have written a small thing on the subject at BLACKFIVE .

Theory & Practice: We all saw the strange rants about grammar yesterday, from the odd mind of the shooter. Apparently there's a guy...