Here's a theory about Republican re-orientation that sounds really exciting: Peggy Noonan says "It's pirate time." Now is...

Our condolences to FPS Russia on the apparent murder of their producer . I had not realized that they were close physical neighbors to the ...

Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons in 1936.  He quoted the First Lord of the Admiralty, who was opposing direct efforts to pre...

Happiness, a new season. This is a good trailer:

Richard Fernandez writes a review of the new Hobbit movie, which makes me think I might ought to go see it after all. I hated Jackson'...

For those of you interested in arms-related questions, the folks at Lucky Gunner email to draw your attention to their recent tests . They...

Over at Maggie's Farm, they're featuring a series of old favorites like chicken pot pie. Today's topic is chicken tetrazzini, w...

About five minutes into this video and the wife veto'd the idea, but I think I can talk her into it. Some of you may recognize the ...

An economist writing in Aeon has an article on the rise of a leisure-based society, long predicted by Keynes and others. He asks, "Ar...

A review of Scottish fencing .

And maybe the modern trend toward excessive personal grooming is not such a hot idea either, not to mention zippers.

“If you swim out in the ocean, the ocean’s always alive,” Saugstad said. “You can feel it. But the mountains feel like they’re asleep.” T...

We watched "The Pink Panther" the other night, which came out when I was eight years old.  I believe that was the last time I had ...

In a comment thread below, Tom linked to a fine article by Kevin D. Williamson at the National Review Online, which I thought should be hig...

I'm really impressed with this new line from the President. It's so perfect. It's obviously wrong, in fact the very opposite ...

It's an interesting piece that begins with a cheerful invocation of the nearness of death , but I suppose I can understand the sentiment...

The Red Book is an immense illuminated manuscript, which [Carl] Jung indited on cream vellum in the private scriptorium of his study over a...

Too much of it. But it won't last . They can't afford it much longer. In the fullness of time, we shall live and die again on o...

I'm doing a kind of double-Lent this year, starting this New Year's Day and ending on Easter Sunday. There are reasons for this w...

Maggie's Farm has a terrific punk Auld Lang Syne up, and here's a dixieland rendition: