In a post aimed at the late Andrew Breitbart -- of whom I know fairly little -- The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates cites the history of SN...

Objectively, spring is still almost a month away.  Subjectively, it was eighty degrees and sunny today, and the pear trees have broken out ...

Parents should be able to kill their newborns, argue a panel of ethicists in a new paper , because they are not actually people; they are on...

One of our own has apparently decided to hang it out in the wind. His book on Fallujah is the best book I know of on that part of the I...

I've begun watching the early episodes of a show called "Breaking Bad," about a high-school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque w...

Several of you have written to ask if I've seen the new "Full Metal Jousting" show on the History channel.  I hadn't, alt...

My sister writes to report that she just had a wonderful run up in Wyoming..  She's training for a marathon again, and the run was 15 mi...

The man who does not know who his great-grandfather was, naturally enough would not care what he was. The Caskodens have pride of ancestry ...

Today Mickey Kaus points to a book from 1978 that demonstrates what he calls an ' eerie prescience .'  The book's thesis is... ...

Such is the title of this book review, which makes the case that the famous Cardinal was marked more by a gambler's sentiment than a ma...

So I gather, anyway .  I had thought this was supposed to be a distraction from the economic issues, but it looks like we're all in. R...

We've just finished our annual fire department fundraiser, with its Mardi Gras theme. We had a parade and everything, but I see from sc...

I recently met a Franciscan nun who, after our conversation, gave me a book she thought that I ought to read.  It is called The Holy Longing...

The AP says " Obama peddles modest American dream ." Don't be so modest, Mr. President!  I have learned just this morning ab...

H'Wood snubs Muslim Stone : Sean Stone, son of controversial director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam in Iran last week and says he’...

At the beginning of January, in the bookshop of Terminal 2 at San Francisco airport, I looked for a translation of the Iliad – not that I ...

The Hillbilly Hellcats warn you: Rathkeltair has the same opinion.

Caterpillar is coming home . Caterpillar Inc. said it chose a site near Athens, Ga., for a new $200 million factory that will employ about...

I had a horse do this once, with a couple of differences. First, he wasn't as athletic -- which means he didn't jump as far up in...