Society, State, and Man: A side discussion below deserves a top-line response. One of the things I've learned over the last few years i...

Why would Paul Revere...? Legal Insurrection makes an observation , and then forwards a question. In fact, as pointed out at Conservatives4P...

What's the Crime Again? I'm not a John Edwards fan, to put it mildly. But I confess I can't quite understand what crime he comm...

Stating the Obvious: It's always nice when a comprehensive and expensive study proves what everyone already knew .

The Decline of Violence: I generally think there isn't enough of it; and perhaps I am right : Steven Pinker is currently working on a bo...

Now This Sounds Like Fun: When I was younger, I once ran down a deer until it turned to bay. It was only a baby. I let it go, of course --...

DEPT. OF "IF THIS HADN'T HAPPENED I WOULD HAVE BEEN FORCED TO MAKE IT UP" Key graf: The life size "Dungkey" introduc...

PLEASE KILL ME ...if I ever decide to do a DITY move again.

I'd Buy Tickets Westboro Baptist Church vs. the KKK . H/t Daily Caller.

Unresistance A book review of "Berlin 1961" (Frederick Kempe) in the Wall Street Journal describes the long-term damage that can ...

Scientific Tribalism Assistant Village Idiot has linked to an article in The Week entitled "Made-Up Minds," about the distressin...

Principles: Dr. H. Mansfield speaks of Harvard's : “Adjusting to change” is now the unofficial motto of Harvard, mutabilitas instead of ...

Our Hearts Were Touched with Fire From a speech by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., on Memorial Day, 1884, from which my pastor quoted this morn...

Memorial Day: This weekend we remember warriors fallen, and honor warriors living. RangerUp is doing so by donating a fifth of their profit...

A Woman's Voice: T99 had a post about women who sing; I suppose I might post up a particular favorite of mine. Her name is Hope: Hope ...

The Roots: Today's xkcd: The alt text says: Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not ...

Chick Voices I'm overcome this morning by the need for some of my favorite women singing. First, Sandy Denny in Richard Thompson's ...

States As Labs This handy site lets you view the unemployment rates for one or more states over the last few years as a graph contrasting w...

Who Speaks to Us I guess some graduating seniors get Winston Churchill or John F. Kennedy, while others get comedians who feel compelled to ...

Hegel Goes West: Via Arts & Letters Daily , a story on the perils of bad philosophy : In 1856, a Prussian immigrant named Henry Conrad B...