"Get Drunk" A poem, about halfway through this piece by the Clancy Brothers: "Get drunk, and never pause for rest: with wine...

Weird Kids A friend who really has my number sent me home from a recent visit with a copy of the movie " Temple Grandin ." I was ...

West Oversea Book Trailer: Our friend Lars Walker has done something I haven't seen before, which is to make a video trailer for his bo...

Project VALOUR-IT Update: The fundraiser ends tomorrow, and we are very far from its goal . There is little chance we will reach it -- perh...

A Stout Orange Blade: It's the 12th of July. Happy Boyne Day , Major Leggett! UPDATE: And since it is, why not an Irish night? The sum...

Boston Early Music Festival: I haven't been to Boston since 1996, when I took refuge there briefly from the Olympics that were bedevilin...

More Shape Notes I know someday I'll convert some of you. This clip has four excellent songs (Poland, Consecration, Stratfield, and Chi...

Project VALOUR-IT Update: The Marine team is behind somewhat, but overall the campaign is about a quarter of the way to its goal. If you wi...

Running: As close as to a weaving woman's breast the bar of warp is drawn, when accurately she passes shuttle and spool along the meshin...

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...