Did you know that the BBC has a pidgin-language website? It turns out that this year's Miss Africa pageant was quite exciting. Miss Af...

I was supposed to be looking for something else, but these chessmen caught my eye, along with dozens of other insanely beautiful sets featur...

These dogs seem into it. From a site called " Design You Trust ."  Lots of interesting things there.

The fire festival is close at hand. Someday I hope to go to Scotland for it, but thus far it has not worked out. In Shetland, where the V...

I have just returned from the ancestral homeland in east Tennessee, where I visited with both my father's and mother's people. The ...

Why do right-wing intellectuals hate Trump, and by extension capitalism ? In the case of the anti-Trump right-wing intellectual, however, ...

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!

Poor lass, she's hardly mentioned. But she's there, featured a moment among minor deities of the Celtic pantheon. There's so...

Pastries, Croissant and Danish. Closeup of the Danish pastries. The hound of the hall sleeping near the fire.

Old comrade Joseph W. once said this was the carol he most associated with the Hall. It's a fine one. But I like this song too, tho...

If I'd been getting some of this clickbait email a few weeks ago, I might be in even more crafty trouble than I already am.  This mornin...

Two of our least respectable Senators, Harris and Hirono, ask a Federal judicial candidate if his membership in the Knights of Columbus isn’...

Tonight's solstice combines with a full moon and a meteor shower. I had planned to hike up to the top of the ridge and camp, in spite ...

Lena Dunham will play the starring role of Willow Wallace , a "fierce Scottish she-warrior who don't need no man." Co-stars ...

Every quartet needs a guy with a low growl.

When Joseph was an old man, an old man was he, He married Virgin Mary, the Queen of Galilee. And one day as they went walking, all in t...

Or, Christmas dragons . It's kind of a stretch , but I can see it.