Schlock Mercenary creator Howard Tayler writes a good review of 47 Ronin . The movie poster is largely misleading. In fact, it wasn't...

... as delivered by a self-declared "Southern Lady," against "White Trash." I was suspicious at first, I have to admit...

If you've been around here a while, you know the story about St. Stephen's Day. I won't bore you with it again. It's a gra...

The peace of the Hall to all people of good will. Merry Christmas to you all.

If you didn't see it elsewhere , here is an argument from an astronomer that the Star of Bethlehem may have been Jupiter. It's fas...

Santa delivers . Good luck, Marines. May your future Christmases be spent with family as well as friends.

That might as well be the title to everything I post, so thoroughly does the conflict preoccupy me.  Anyway, I like Jonah Goldberg's tak...

Three good posts, all Maggie's Farm links: The coherency of E.J. Dionne's piece surprised me: The answer lies in embracing a hu...

I could use all of these tips .

A Think Progress story on the Robertson drama says: Conservatives have fervently been defending Robertson’s comments about homosexuality, t...

They're clearly behind this atrocity .

Everyone understands that the First Amendment restrains only government actions, not social pressures being brought to bear. There is an al...

Something tells me we're going to be seeing more of this .

Time for the "best of the year" lists.  Here are the 30 best quotations from 2013.

The BBC piece is not always good history -- there are a few real howlers in the commentary -- but I suppose that's part of the charm o...

Last Sunday was Gaudete Sunday.  This is the last hour in which I can thus post this before it's overtaken by events. :) Getting clo...

A new book treats the question of obscene words, noting that just what qualifies as an obscenity has changed a lot over the years.  The Med...

You are all (excepting one of you, our friend the orchestral musician) doubtless bored with my repeated commentary on the unity of beautiful...

Via this article on GWB, I learned that something called "Thought Cloud" exists . Via Thought Cloud, I learned that it's pro...

For this reason alone, it must be repealed .