I will be gone for a few days, escorting some friends from foreign lands around the Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge. They wanted to see ...

St. Monica was the mother of St. Augustine. It is impossible to think seriously of Christianity as we know it today without dealing with Au...

XKCD illustrates a point we talked about recently.

Today I witnessed a confrontation between two characters so despicable that I was sorry to have to take sides, mentally though in no way pra...

Megan McArdle asks a question I am singularly unqualified to answer , as with one exception I don't watch television (and I watch it onl...

Grim and Cass have brought up some partial solutions, or at least ideas of places to look, and I ran across another today. In the comments...

Plato discussed the idea that knowledge is justified true belief (JTB), and historically a lot of philosophers have accepted this definitio...

I am doing some important things today, just not here . UPDATE: Ok, now we're really finished for the day .

I'm officially 80% German, according to the very lustig "how German am I" test from Hipstery.com. The average is just 65%. I’m...

Here's an image I'm sure I'll have use for from time to time.

Maps that sort things in an unusual way.

Another story from Georgia, one well worth reading, is the story of Antoinette Tuff . She stopped a school shooting in DeKalb County the ot...

Allahpundit says , "This guy’s either going to be president, the next Jim Carrey, or institutionalized." Or else he'll jus...

This is our neighbor's beautiful daughter Michelle and her son, Sam, 14 years old.  Sam was killed Sunday afternoon in a head-on collisi...

If you've waded through How Do You Splint a Broken Paradigm? and Let's Shift That Paradigm a Bit More (God bless you), then I hope ...

The decision by the Missouri Supreme Court to allow propofol, the same powerful anesthetic that caused the death of Michael Jackson, to be u...

Two men, one aware of his situation and one oblivious. This event happened a couple of seasons ago.   Despite having his back (mos...

I introduced one line of thought in my previous post, How Do You Splint a Broken Paradigm? , that needs a bit more filling out. While I wrot...

One reason I decided I had to study Aristotle was that he kept popping up in my research in early US history. Hence, it was a happy surprise...