According to the headline , "I'm the daddy... to 70 children!" This is a pretty thorny ethical issue, isn't it?  Cassand...

...you know what's a bad place to try to rob?  The Tractor Supply Company.

We went by the Feed and Seed today to buy wormer for the horses.  While we were there, Ms. Grim was asking them if they would get peanuts in...

" Empathy is not a major player when it comes to moral motivation," which raises some concerns about its value.  Americans are re...

Our brothers at the BSBFB have posted this video of children at play. They say it is a serious matter, and indeed, once it was.  This i...

A most excellent evening recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (in New York City)! Of course I thought of all of you. I think of you of...

Thank you, Ms. Garofalo, for your kind opinion of your fellow Americans . The thing is, I think there is a funny parallel within the GOP t...

Walter Russell Mead makes an interesting point . In ancient times, the damage to two unique symbols of national identity by something as r...

The  worst  argument against the death penalty, of course, is that it’s somehow awful for the state to kill people. Nation-states are  all ...

"Terrorist arrested in elaborate plan to cause minor cosmetic damage to government buildings." It is good to love your enemies....

... won't you guard our henhouse ? "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them...

You probably know this song.  If you don't much like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash did it ; and if you don't like either of them, I've ...

Socrates was a troublemaker like this. The man is a liar, too.  He tells you in the first few minutes that he is a Jew, but he is in fac...

In a prior post Grim asks, "Is there some fundamental reason to prefer monogamy, or is it just what we're used to seeing?" Per...

An article from Medievalists.net, on 'Iceland's literary landscapes.'   It goes with this video, which is part of a new document...

I'd have to say that Johnny Cash wins the prize on this one, by a good sight.  Still, in fairness, he had the advantage of being muc...

You may have seen this article on the probability of your existence written by a student at Havard.  (H/t Instapundit ). So what’s the pro...

Dr. Hanson does best when he writes about history, as he does this morning . Whether at Byzantium during the Nika Riots or in bread and ci...

How many of you like Herman Cain, but think there's no point in taking him seriously because he can't win ? In the days before the...

One of the stranger headlines today touts the fact that Africa is one of the bright spots in the global economy.  Why?  They ran out of mone...