Apparently Sergeant Shlock and my dog have something in common. He's a great dog, really. It's just that he's a country dog,...

...says the girl's father in Watership Down ...explaining why she can't keep Hazel (whom she's rescued from her cat), so that he...

Nothing says "You're on the unpopular side of an issue" like a legislative veto override .

Michelle Obama came up with it, and it's brilliant:  impose unpopular regulations on the programs funded with the federal spending unti...

King Richard I of England (the Lion-Hearted) composed this song at the end of the 12th century, while imprisoned by the Duke of Austria duri...

Learning to fly. I was a pilot once, I wish I'd had one of these. At least I can still enjoy listening to Tom.

From AEI :

Over the last hour my internet (wifi) connection got wonkier than usual, and we noticed that we kept losing the satellite TV as we tried to ...

Steven Pinker, via Maggie's Farm , on " What's Wrong with Harvard ": I submit that if “building a self” is the goal of a...

That's when it happened. Someone said, "I can't believe it will be nine years this week since 9/11". And one by one we beg...

By custom and tradition of the Hall , today there are no posts except this poem. Enid & Geraint Once strong, from solid Camelot he...

Foul language warning, though nothing you won't expect if you know who Mike Tyson is. I have never seen a celebrity called out like...

A version of a Child ballad, King Henry V's Conquest of France, making a little fast and loose with history: A version of another C...

Dragging earth-penetrating radar around Stonehenge has some interesting results.

Skip ahead a few minutes, and you can hear an Oxford scholar talking about a hundred-year old find of trash that includes, among other thin...

The Ebola epidemic, as expected, is getting worse:  about 3,600 infected and 2,000 dead so far.  More ominous is the even more complete bre...

A young piano prodigy's parents would prefer to leave her in public school in Washington, D.C., but then she'd have to give up the ...

Statistics about Americans' retirement planning have a tendency to be a bit alarming.  This AEI article by Andrew Biggs and Sylvester S...

Sumer is icumen in, lhude sing, cuccu .  Here, summer is on its way out, finally, and we're looking forward to the first day we can ope...