Gun & Garden: Via The Sage of Knoxville , a 1 4-round pump-action bullpup shotgun for home defense. OK, as far as it goes. It doesn...

The Siege and Women of Beauvais: In this week in 1472, Charles of Burgundy was advancing upon the town of Beauvais in France. She was a pro...

Viking Music from Oslo:

Weapons of Less Than Mass Destruction Carole Anne Bond, a married but infertile resident of Pennsylvania, stole an unidentified "causti...

The Old Rolling Skies What's more beautiful than a thunderstorm on the water? Especially if you get to see it in time-lapse . There...

And Now for Something Completely Different My neighbor, who knows that we feel socially inadequate because we lack a golf-cart, has sent me ...

This Sounds Familiar: I say this very thing every day, but I didn't expect to read it in the New York Times . But in the face of recent ...

There Went a Man: Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, may you rest in peace . On the outbreak of war Leigh Fermor first joined the Irish Guards but wa...

Predictions: Let's say that a brain scan can identify children who are 75% likely to have criminal records before they turn 30. The que...

Good Start: Looks like Rep. Bachmann is off and running . The congresswoman used her bluntness and charm to overshadow the men at the GOP de...

Augustine and Friendship: I find myself challenged by a claim that I found in Dr. David Grumett's "Arendt, Augustine and Evil"...

Why Should I? I call your attention to a post and comment thread at Megan McArdle's site on The Atlantic . For a week or more, she'...

The Dentist Is Your Friend I've had my first experience with endodontic therapy this morning. That's a root canal to us non-dentist...

Did QE2 Prop up European Banks? Zero Hedge is kind of a wild site, somewhere they're not afraid to explore conspiracy theories, so I...

Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man? Or rather, per the New York Times , why are we lucky enough that they aren't? To date, at lea...

Rules for a Gunfight

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Pentecost: Today is the feast of Pentecost. Pentecost was the greatest feast at Camelot, when Arthur would take no meat until he had seen a...

Criminal Libel? How many of you knew there even was such a thing? (I didn't.) From the interesting site Popehat , which I've just ...

Calcio Fiorentino : Apparently the ancient Romans used to play this game. There was an interruption in the tradition, so the rules may not...