An associate professor of music wants you to know how much safer he felt in China . In China, the obligation to isolate felt shared and the ...

“They could change their rules , but haven’t.”

As we sort through the simultaneous complaints that the President is an autocratic tyrant who's failing to take personal control of enou...

A police shooting . A Maryland man who was shot and killed by a police officer was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire from outsid...

I don't know about you guys, but I haven't had that much success getting useful diagnoses out of doctors, other than in really obscu...

Now this is an essay worth discussing .

So far I'm only doing these on the days when I break isolation. Today I went down to town for what I think will be the last time for a ...

Robert Fisk is still around , it turns out. "The Saudi royal family appear unaware of the dangers of settling scores among themselves...

Really everything is likely to be canceled that can be, but you know it's serious when Daytona cancels . Some appropriate music .

Apropos of the last post, and because it happens to be the anniversary, a sea story . ON MARCH 14, 1757, Royal Navy Vice Admiral John Byng b...

After problems arose with the C.D.C.’s test, officials could have switched to using successful tests that other countries were already using...

You can tell when people aren’t taking a crisis seriously when they try to shoehorn irrelevant policy preferences into their so-called “disa...

The "NewNeo" blog continues to amuse, particularly the comments section.  Commenter OldTexan weighs in on the host's thoughts...

John Hayward nails the irritable irrationality of someone woken from a sound sleep to a threat demanding immediate inconvenient action: F...

As the stable world seems less stable, remember that it has happened before . We should be startled if we were quietly reading a prosaic mod...

If I were to guess, I'd say that Ms. Palin was always a Sir Mixalot fan but long felt she had to keep that aspect of her personality pr...

In general I'm opposed to involving the Federal government in anything, or for Congress legislating outside of its very clear Article I ...

Part one and two of a study urging free market reforms for North Carolina's hard liquor industry. North Carolina has one of the most vi...

SECDEF issues major travel restrictions , at the same time as our withdrawal from Afghanistan begins. I think these are 150th Cavalry Regi...

I'm inclined to isolation on most occasions, so it wasn't too shocking to realize I had been an early adopter of the 'social dis...