Words mean things. Oh yes, they most certainly do. So this article popped up in my twitter feed, and I'm browsing it, basically agree...

Continuing with the music from my church's Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services.  They've been hitting on all cylinders. I...

Takes chutzpah to fiddle with something Bach perfected, but he does a good job.

I haven't played in more than a year; other things are consuming my time right now. But I ran across this video at Daddy Warpig's a...

Go to dark Gethsemane, You who feel the tempter's pow'r; Your Redeemer's conflict see; Watch with Him one bitter hour; Tu...

We once had a long discussion about the franchise , questioning whether the universal franchise was really a good idea and debating approac...

The artist who crafted the charging bull sculpture on Wall Street is irritated that his work has been revised without his permission . An at...

Putin says that the gas attack in Syria was a "false flag," and also that he just knows that we'll be seeing a lot more of the...

Since everyone is enjoying this game -- both here and at AVI's place -- here's a thesis on how English was changed by another langua...

Last week, a driver in Stockholm completed the latest in a series of Islamist murders by truck, the most famous being in Nice, France. The l...

Sean Spicer , ladies and gentlemen: We didn't use chemical weapons in World War II. You know, you had a, you know, someone as despicable...

When it comes to a flat refusal to participate in enforcing Federal laws against immigration, it's clear that this is a bad practice. O...

Here's the original . And here's the DB remix .

They're just high school kids, but they understand the real spirit of the thing . Amy Robertson... was hired as the high school’s head p...

In a game with a lot of cash on the table, the winner rakes it in -- and the loser loses big . [The recent confirmation of Justice Gorsuch w...

Bethany Mandel, writing at the Federalist , points out a fairly nasty bit of Antisemitism at Politico . Now, such things happen a lot, and...

A pretty nifty color-coded map shows all the river basins in the lower 48 , in a way that makes it very easy to see where they drain. If yo...

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...