Mothers Against Drunk Yogurt Making My tiny nearby town boasts only two grocery stores, the WalMart and an HEB. Unfortunately both have sto...

Don't Let This Man Near the Press Conference Iowahawk has some proposed questions for the President: . . . Instead of making cars get 6...

Living and Dying: I've been thinking some more about our recent conversations because of yesterday's tragic story from Texas . This ...

The Masculine Ideal: Recently we discussed some examples from Dr. Hodges' "Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Mal...

Gandalf: Continuing the meditation on independence, I saw several fireworks displays this weekend, both government-run and privately-funded....

Independence Day: I entered my specifications into Google, and the first hit was a Sugar Daddy dating site . “No way,” I thought. “I’m not a...

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...