The WSJ has an article today that Hot Air tagged "There is No Such Thing as Free Birth Control."  The article makes the point t...

Well, now, that depends on whether you are in Sweden... ...or New Jersey. Actually, maybe there's not so much difference after a...

In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New York...

Via Lars Walker (who notes that Troll Valley is now available as an iBook, if any of you are devotees -- apparently no links are required),...

The inimitable Iowahawk takes on the second annual preposterous "Detroit is A-OK" Superbowl spot: Okay, yeah, so this isn't D...

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), engaged in a tit-for-tat race for the primary wins, will be addr...

A remarkable post on martial arts called The Pleasure of Drowning deals with the self-deception that comes from teaching your students how ...

I've written a small work of Arthurian fiction, on the order of a modest novel.  I think it would benefit from the critical eye of caref...

You've doubtless seen the news from yesterday ; obviously I am pleased to see Mr. Santorum do well.  The key thing about yesterday's...

This begins with the reading of a section from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , in the original Old English.  It's always fascinating t...

I took a ride over to the ancestral home to join my father and mother, and my sister who happened to be in town, in watching the Super Bowl...

I said that I would marry, And she would be my bride, And alone we should not tarry, And twenty things beside; "I'll plough and sow...

Now here is something I didn't know:   Rick Santorum is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem o...

[H]e had searched by the stream by which she had prayed to the stones, and the pool where she prayed to the stars; he had called her name u...

Brazil has apparently hit upon a piece of wisdom . The official rationale for the 2008 law is that philosophy “is necessary for the exerc...

Apparently the window of vulnerability that allowed a secret FBI phone call to be recorded was the hacking of a personal, private email acco...

Rough stuff in politics today.  Sometimes you bring it on yourself : [Mark Steyn said] "For a start, when he says, ‘I am my brother’s...

Business Insider wades into a controversy by noticing that the Susan G. Komen Foundation, though no longer willing to associate with Planne...

There’s an educational video from that time, called “Understanding Asperger’s,” in which I appear. I am the affected 20-year-old in the wa...

The winds in Georgia are coming off the Gulf of Mexico this winter, so that the air is warm.  It's good weather for the road. We to...