This is kind of a strange project but -- let's face it -- lots of things about linguistics are strange. Tolkien used to invent whole la...

I remember when the words to this song went: "Well, he used to work here as a doorman / Now he's gonna fight George Foreman!"...

The first two Marines to be punished for the Marines United scandal are, as expected, enlisted personnel. Just to add insult to injury : Th...

The article is actually from 2015, but it remains so very current .

I came across this on my Facebook feed this morning, and it's too precious not to share: Got an email from my professor, asking why I...

It was this day 1320 that the Declaration of Arbroath was signed. [Robert the Bruce, and not Edward like the Pope thought], too, divine pro...

I mean, it's only been 100 days , and they really did have quite a shock. “I absolutely despise these people,” one woman tweeted at me a...

You know what would make a baseline for a good deal? That one that Blackwater founder Erik Prince was supposed to have passed the outline o...

I say Gothbilly because the song is originally a goth-rock classic from the '80s. But I never imagined it like this: Original here:...

The entry of the Ethics Committee into an investigation into Nunes means that he can't oversee work on the Russia investigation -- alth...

At some point, either we or whoever succeeds us is going to have to establish new ways of treating opposition opinions with respect. Such r...

Danes tend to believe in something called Jante Law , which has 10 rules all around the idea of accepting the average.... Jante persists in ...

Secretary of State Tillerson's brief comment : North Korea launched yet another intermediate range ballistic missile. The United State...

It looks like the soldier and the firefighter are really a soldier and a firefighter (Swiss, in both cases), whereas the 'knight' ...

The piece on USAF leadership reminds me to point you toward Jim Webb's long form piece from 1979 , in case you didn't go back and re...

Just another regular reminder of how small the circles are . Where it all gets somewhat ridiculous is when CNN’s Jim Sciutto tweeted the fol...

We don't talk about the Air Force a lot around here, but they're having a real retention problem with their pilots right now. Partl...

If this story is accurate , there was no back channel between Russia and Trump's people before 11 January. The meeting described here w...

Who was at fault? Not "deplorables," says Bernie Sanders . Not millennial feminists, says the New Republic . In the end, millen...

A rather brutal assessment , but well deserved.