I will be gone to the Wild for a week, from Palm to Easter Sunday.  I will be traveling the Blue Ridge from the Nantahala to the George Wash...

It would be nice if we could find an alternative to the Hollywood system that keeps turning out these pieces of dross.  Amazon has apparentl...

I wonder how that will go? The dwarfs... teach the princess to believe in herself in a Rocky-esque training montage of swordplay and thugg...

Pankration was such a bloody sport that it had only two known rules: no eye-gouging and no biting. Aside from these restrictions, anything...

Apropos of our recent discussion on impenetrable scientific writing, this disguised admission from the IPCC's most recent Special Report...

Today marks the passage, at the fine age of eighty-eight, of bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs .  Here is an old documentary film about himself...

Yesterday we rode over to the gardens , which lie just by the middle fork of the Oconee River .  Owned by the state of Georgia, it operates...

A gram of silver is currently worth about a dollar.  Thus a silver coin weighing about one and a half grams is worth about a buck and a half...

Justice Ginsburg today made some remarks suggesting that Congress would be unfairly treated if the entirety of the health-care law should b...

Maybe this is what's wrong with the Test . Am I allowed to say "wrong"? Or "anxiety"?

The most famous Crusader castle in the world is the scene of current fighting in the Syrian counterinsurgency.  It was known in its day as ...

In the early 9th century, Charlemagne's missionaries translated the Gospels into Old Saxon in order to aid the conversion of their conq...

How about a little rockabilly this morning? This next band appears to be Belgian , to judge from what I've been able to dig up on ...

I love articles that have a good appreciation for the history of a problem -- although, perhaps "problem" is too strong: For we...

What I really like about this story is that it makes no attempt to explain why there was a sword around.  Why would it be newsworthy to fi...

I share something of Dr. Althouse's bemusement at the government's arguments as presented today.  Is the penalty associated with fai...

The comments below got started on the good that Roger Miller can do for your mood. Here's a guaranteed pick-me-up with Roger Miller and...

I took Joel's advice and went to see the movie tonight.  It appears to be headed to box office disaster, but I'm really not sure why...

I want one right now . H/t: oh, you know. Just go over to Rocket Science and click on all the links today. It's a good batch.

I wanted to write yesterday about reports that the FDA was poised to ban low-level prophylactic antibiotics in livestock, but the initial ne...