She'll Never Be a Soldier Our small community suffered a heavy blow last night. This lovely, strong, active young woman, our next-door ...

The Japan Syndrome Update: Explosion; What's with the Containment? This happened sometime during the night, or at least, I couldn't...

Elmore James: One of the pieces Bill Kirchen does below is a riff from an old Elmore James piece called "Dust My Broom." I don...

Gutless: This video of death threats aimed at Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is making the rounds. Professor Jacobson asks why people aren...

TSUNAMI A huge 8.9 earthquake has struck Japan . A really nasty tsunami already has hit Hawaii and is due to strike the Pacific Northwest U...

A Thumbnail Sketch: CNN has put together a useful thumbnail sketch of the current unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. It's rem...

The Rest of the Jury Story Since everyone who commented on my jury story agreed that Little Company was out of luck, you'll be happy to ...

Jury Duty I got called for jury duty this week. My number was so high that there wasn't much chance of my being chosen, but I got inter...

Bill Kirchen Plays... Well, Everything: In accord with T99's Billboard post from a week or so back -- and in deference to today's ve...

That's a Lot of Rowing: Young couples start falling apart after only three years these days, because of ' the stresses of modern lif...

DO ANY OF THESE GENTS LOOK LIKE AN "ALPHA MALE TO YOU? Really??? I might buy off on Tim Oliphant *** but the traditionalist in me finds...

What I've Always Liked about Sarah Palin: Barbara Kay, toward the end of her piece, hits on exactly why I've always liked Mrs. Palin...

The Egyptian Situation: A small group of women activists in Egypt -- 200 or so by their own count -- discovered yesterday that the pro-democ...

Law and Knitting A woman after my own heart . She left a promising mergers & acquisitions career at Dewey Ballantine to open a knitting...

The Unbearable Smartitude of the Noble Elephant Apropos of Grim's series of posts on thinking horses, allow me to present my favorite an...

Elko! Apparently Senate Majority Leader Reid believes that the Elko Cowboy Poetry Festival is dependent on government handouts . “The mean-s...

Hai-yi-yi-ku, yay! OK, now those Republican budget-cutting fanatics have gone too far. Harry Reid to the rescue , pointing out that: “The m...

Senate Democratic Slogans: The Politico reports that the Senate Democrats are looking for a 2012 slogan . They have a few suggestions. Th...

Guitar as Percussion: Working the strings way up the neck, too. Now that's a man who can fight his rifle -- so to speak. It's not ...

Plausibility: George Will says there are five plausible candidates for the GOP nomination; plus President Obama, that makes six people to fo...