For those of you with an interest in linguistics, here are some very enjoyable podcasts  on the development of English.  Someone in a Chicag...

So, among Viking-oriented friends this week (of whom I have a surprising number), the big news was a study that showed that half of the V...

Seriously?  We don't make it a point to bring home military dogs when they're retired from active duty?

David Foster's site, ChicagoBoyz , linked me to a site called askblog , including this quotation: [T]he cultural margin is more import...

"Soldierfit," a workout plan based not on boot camp -- that's been done, and never very successfully -- but on the military li...

Twenty-five years ago there was great hope that advances in the understanding of the genetic underpinnings of cystic fibrosis heralded a cur...

Science says so .

From Powerline :

An unlikely review , recently made available by the New York Review of Books . (H/t: The Paris Review .) His review is harmed, I think, b...

There's something Marxists, modern feminists, and militant atheists have in common...with each other but not with me. It ties back to t...

Kano wins. Edward Luttwak... well, he came in second .

You can't blame a mother of a fallen son, in a way. Poor boy loved speed, he wasn't to blame. If only the driver had been looking ...

I'm at a conference in a wicked city.  Mrs. W. is visiting #2 Stepson in a wickeder one.  Here's a song about how decent men behave ...

Via the New Yorker .

Via Ace:

From " The Age of Global Warming ," about Malthus's 1798 prediction that the human population would grow exponentially while t...

A name likely to become more familiar to Americans , Nigel Farage leads the UK Independence Party. Adams: You’ve seen the comments by the ...

The Economist has published and instantly withdrawn a review of a book on slavery. Those who remember our reparations discussion will under...

Not really that, of course , as the author makes clear. In my opinion, there are two caveats that are always worth considering when looking ...