This part of the year is rightly their hour.

Right.  It's time to get more serious around here.

Our comrade Lars Walker has a new book out , as you may not know if you don't get over to his place as often as you ought. Hailstone Mou...

I haven't seen the series, but it has generated at least one review worthy of the time it takes to read it. No critical love. No market...

First off, I'd like to start by begging Grim's forgiveness and indulgence.  I'm now FAR afield from why he granted me permission...

From Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago": And how we burned in the camps later, thinking:  What would things have b...

It's amazing how few people you see when you go several miles out to camp in weather that is well below freezing. A fellow I ...

I enjoy AVI commenter BS King's blog "Bad Data!  Bad!"  The newest post takes apart a questionable study linking sugar consum...

Today, in a move that shocked thousands of journalists, the Roman Catholic Church chose a Pope who plans on upholding Catholic Doctrine.  A...

Maggie's Farm pointed me to an article about the tribal warfare that broke out among anthropologists studying the Yanomami.  Napoleon C...

Why Republicans should believe that President Obama's "outreach" is real and he's not going to pull the football away: ...

Sarah Hoyt is a Portuguese immigrant science fiction writer whose work I've never read, but she has a good blog.  A post from earlier th...

An adult who received a cochlear implant at age six reports that the brain interprets any unfamiliar sensation as pain.  He also reflects o...

Slate runs an interesting article about lock-picking in 1851 and the first shifting of the ground beneath Victorians' feet.

Much as I like James Taranto on most subjects, I don't understand him at all on gender roles.  He's at it again today , writing abou...

David Foster reminds us that it has been a year since Neptunus Lex's sudden death.  Foster remembers him with links to some favorite po...

What kind of a meanie wouldn't let me bring this cute little fella to class with me? To tell the truth, if I were put in charge of ...

Time to go, again. The Savannah River, below Lake Hartwell I will be in the Wild for a few days. I'd like to take up Tex's post...

A couple of old Coyote Blogs from the good old days before Hope and Change.  First, how  progressives are conservative : . . . I must say ...

From House of Eratosthenes : Liberalism is all about wishing things out to the cornfield .  Which raises the question of:  What is the c...