Performed by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. UPDATE: Congratulations on surviving 2016, those of you on the East Coast. Now for 2017.

REYKJAVIK (AFP) -    Iceland is ending an eventful year in a political quagmire , left without a government for two months a...

One of these years, I have to get out to Edinburgh for this festival.

In the Rogue One thread (where, BTW, douglas has now weighed in) I brought up a series of military fantasy novels that I think many at the ...

Pretty funny, though there's some foul language.

[The former head of Obama's faith-based outreach] once drafted a faith-outreach fact sheet describing Obama’s views on poverty, titling ...

From ChrisTheBarker : That link was via Jonah Goldberg's newsletter, whence also these: The Year in Memes :  I got through th...

I have discovered the pleasures of " Audible ," which is an Amazon-related service that allows you to download audiobooks.  It...

Yes, the press makes no real effort to hide its bias, and it's troubling to think how many people get their information from it.  Nevert...

Something I published locally: Last spring, Aransas County voters defeated a proposal to create a county Groundwater Commission by a vote ...

A military officer from the Australian Defence Forces encourages junior officers and NCOs to learn from Homer. There's a lot to learn ...

A bit of history on the long series of feasts: The Second Council of Tours of 567 noted that, in the area for which its bishops were respons...

How bad does an anti-capitalist country's crisis have to get before even the Washington Post deplores it?--even if they continue to exh...

Back to pale, iridescent colors now:  I'm working on a dove.

A sober feast during the 12 days of Christmas.

Grim posting one of their songs led me to a 45-minute album of Christmas music the Irish Rovers made. Also, for anyone who wants to arg...

The Gospel According to John is thought to have been composed late, and incorporates an understanding of Greek philosophy not found in the ...

Our neighbor's daughter and son-in-law are visiting, which makes for a big redfish limit.  His indifferent fillet technique (just grabbi...