It's not often that I get the feeling of really missing out, but man ... Here in Atlanta we ring in the New Year with the Peach Drop,...

Arts & Letters Daily posts this: Liu Xiaobo is charged by the Chinese government with the “crime of incitement to subvert state powe...

Probably several of you saw the recent dustup over the question of whether marriage law has become so unfair to men that it is unconscionab...

Once Rome built a fortress in the west of Britain.  It was called Deva Victrix , goddess of victory, and indeed there remains today a shrine...

It's not a bad idea , really.  Alliances should be based not merely on economic interest, but ideally on a shared vision.  If you're...

"Tristano" here is Tristan, the knight who loved Isolde.  This harper has some talent, sadly obscured once the solo ends.  I would...

Read this , and let's discuss it.

Some backstory on Wren Day , from Peter Berresford Ellis' The Druids (p. 223 in the 1994 edition): From native Celtic sources comes...

...I met a wren upon a wall: ...In the tree, the holly tree, where all the boys do follow me... Happy Wren Day !

But I couldn't resist posting this picture of this cloud-monster reaching over the horizon to grab us.

The Hall Skull Bedecked for the Yuletide A Song of Joy A Song of Feasting A Song of Wassailing A Song of Making...

The thing that bothers me more than anything else, these last few years, is the question of how to respond to matters like these . A small...

This one is by Bach.  I assume you need no introduction .  The man was a miracle.

The NRA's Institute for Legislative Action normally trumpets their successes on law-making matters; given the general turn against anti-...

The sorting out of Iraq's internal tensions was inevitable given our rapid departure; but the threats against Christians are not new. ...

It's a German piece, given what "German" meant in 1700 .

The following bit of history is from The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook .  The book is an outstanding example of what a coo...

Here's something interactive websites are really useful for: walking us through concepts in geometry. If you're trying to home sc...

We can all relax; ClimateGate2 was completely overblown. The University of East Anglia has posted explanations of some of the troubling qu...