Project VALOUR-IT: Annual Fundraiser Again this year, I have been asked to participate in the USMC team, Project VALOUR-IT . I always agre...

"If This Goes On --" I've found an entertaining site for speculative fiction fans like myself, called Paleofuture: The Futur...

An Institution: This is a fascinating account of the development of Trinity College , where many of the most powerful women in America were ...

Etiquette: Normally, when one has a guest who violates some rule of manners, it is most praiseworthy to avoid drawing attention to it. When...

"Southerners" Dad29 had an interesting piece on a critic who worried -- in the 1930s -- that "Southern" ideas no longer...

Wounds and Manhood: Dr. Kenneth Hodges wrote : Wounds do not mark failures in the effort to be knightly. Although each wound might be said t...

Give Me That Old Time Religion: It's good enough for me ! The Anchor Steam Brewery, in San Francisco, once cribbed ingredients from a 4,...

Walzer on Maimonides, Charity, and Justice: Michael Walzer, a leftist thinker who has written one of the most important modern works on Just...

Piva : Performed by Les haulz et les bas .

Elise: I would just like to take a moment to point out that our friend Elise has been blogging again , including quite a bit of commentary o...

The Deficit Crisis Not just the budget deficit, but that other one: the attention deficit. Now's when I'm really missing Fred Thomp...

Afghanistan: I am not currently free to discuss this subject, but I would like to hear what the lot of you think about it. Here are some ot...

A Historic Moment: A Turkish admiral sails into Abu Dhabi "for the first time in centuries," says the news; and longer still sinc...

Singing in the Rain : A local theater was showing it tonight; I didn't get by, but I regret that I couldn't make the time. It was a...

The Spider & the Diving Bell This Discover Magazine site's column called "Not Exactly Rocket Science" is one of the best f...

Birds Do It, Bats Do It Do our bodies contain an ancestral but atrophied gift for "seeing" magnetic fields ? Birds navigate with ...

Discretion The Supreme Court has just ruled that 1.5 million women cannot proceed in the form of a class-action lawsuit against WalMart for...

Who's Integrating? A remarkable comment from the UK: Muslims are integrating into British society better than many Christians, accordin...

Father's Day: Today is Father's Day. I want to tell you about a man I know, a friend of mine who is a very good father. He is also...

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...