Let's take the Hank Williams song from the last post on the subject as a baseline for the unity of country and Western music. The song ...

...on subjects we occasionally discuss. A female Marine with combat experience argues against the admission of female Marines into the Inf...

As a service to Dad29, who doesn't know much about country music, a song. This one is by Hank Williams, Sr., when he was singing under ...

"The other VC" has a great annotation of the Declaration of Independence .  It contains some highly useful and informative analysi...

Cassandra's Independence Day post warns of radicalism on the right.   Compromise is what made America : Others saw them as cowardly tr...

Don't you hate it when the market forces changes in energy consumption that bureaucratic bullying could not?  Citing a government repor...

Not really.  I was just having a little gender-bending fun.  The site is really called " Life's Little Mysteries ," and it con...

Pause and reflect. When in the course of human events   it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have c...

Another poll to help us achieve despair .  Best Presidents Ever: 5. (tie) George Washington, +15 points (16 percent place in top-2, 1 perc...

Speaking of crazy Russians, here is one who has assembled a remarkable virtual tour of Machu Picchu out of high-definition photographs.  I...

The Borderline Sociopathic Blog for Boys settles on this for their internet theme song .  There's a significant amount of bad language, ...

A friend sent me this link , designed to make us miss the Great Communicator.

My husband and I have been going back and forth over whether Justice Roberts's decision can be defended.  I was inclined to stick up for...

Or did they do it to us on purpose?  I always figured that tastelessness in modern tomatoes was an unintended consequence of the desire to m...

Jimbo at BLACKFIVE posted a link to this gentleman's obituary, and he's right:  it's a remarkable one , well worth reading.  His...

Every Sunday, the " Rocket Science " blog I enjoy so much posts a lot of links to a variety of science articles.  For the last cou...

I've been enjoying these quizzes , recommended by Bookworm .  She warned me I'd waste a bunch of time on them.

Nature magazine discovers the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . You got to read about it here almost a month ago .  I think that may be the first ...

Cassandra links to a Bookworm piece lampooning the incoherent conspiracy mutterings about Chief Justice Roberts, whose Machiavellian prowes...