From the Road: If you're ever down on Highway 1, you might find this little honky tonk. Here's a closeup of the sign on the door. Ac...

And they're off! A French plane has fired the first shots in Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone begins. The UK prime m...

War On The Poor: Minnesota Republicans Want To Bust Poor People Who Carry Cash Sounds awful, doesn't it? But if one actually consults th...

It really doesn't matter where they are, officials in a disaster always seem to start out unable to tell it like it is. Japan's Nucl...

So the UN finally passed a resolution . UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to authorize military action, i...

I had heard that the movie "Red Dawn" was being remade, this time with the Chinese as the bad guys instead of the Russians and Cub...

What Do All These Radiation Numbers Mean? The Wall Street Journal posted a graphic that I found helpful in understanding a barrage of confus...

The Voters Are Revolting Not just a recall of the Miami-Dade county mayor and commissioner but a real spanking . Mayor Carlos Alvarez pushe...

Riding Out: I'll be out on the road for a few days. With God's permission ( insh'allah ) I should be back next week. Happy St....

L'homme Armé : As performed by the Welsh National Opera, at St. David's Hall in Cardiff. The lyrics state : L'homme, l'homme...

In Praise of Máel Brigte of Moray: Máel Brigte, called "the Tusk," had a single buck tooth that gave him his by-name. He was a Pi...

Heh: The nation was left reeling yesterday by the revelation that the presidential election of 2008 was a hoax. The shocking announcement ca...

Discipline A Virgina fire chief reports on the week he spent last summer with the Tokyo Fire Department: The Tokyo Fire Department (TFD) ha...

3.14 Happy Pi Day. Little Miss Attila says Iowahawk refuses to celebrate Pi Day, because it's irrational. As we said in my old colleg...

For Want of a Nail Brave New Climate has one of the most comprehensible descriptions of the Fukushima reactor accident that I've seen s...

Spring Fertility: The winter winds and snow took down many trees and branches, and we had to take down a few more with saws because they wer...

Presidential Gun Reforms: President Obama's editorial from Sunday's Arizona Star is an unusually refined example of his rhetorical...

At the Great Rising Day Jesus wept at the death of Lazarus. We're not meant to think death is no big deal. This being Lent, too, the l...

Bons Mots Of course pragmatism is true; the trouble is it doesn’t work. -- S. Morgenbesser This book fills a much-needed gap in the literatu...

Obliteration This is why we don't have much idea yet how many people were killed in the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. It's like ...