Are there hymns for Holy Saturday? My experience has always been that no Mass is said, and so no hymns are sung. We have only secular comf...

I don’t have any great words this year, but it is right to mark the occasion. Endure the fast, have faith that better things will come.

A deliberate lack of subtlety, the analyst suggests; or perhaps a declaration of intent. California this week declared its independence from...

 This would make a better press conference:  

This is a good piece . Bdoran will be pleased that its constitutional critique goes beyond the Bill of Rights, and invoked especially Articl...

We should oppose this law , and any other attempt to force government backdoors into our encyrption. By the way, if you don't already ...

This report that people are 'panic buying' baby chickens reminds me of a story about my grandmother. This was my mother's moth...

The brilliance of this cartoon is that you don't need to see the setup to understand the dynamic. No words are required, either. This ...

I guess I clean missed Palm Sunday this year. Truly, Lent seems to be going on longer than usual. Officially Easter is on Sunday. Maybe ...

For a nice change of pace, one of the President's political opponents responds to him like a human being. Earlier I predicted that, if...

...a cautionary tale from Twitter on the use of Zoom. With appropriate music.

We have much work to do .

The British don't seem to grasp that . Royal bodyguards responsible for keeping the outcast Prince Andrew and a number of other royals s...

Language warning, although it's 500 years old . The five sections to the compilation are devoted to religious themes, moral or philosoph...

So this is a George Jones and Tammy Wynette song. I never liked their version, but here's a version I kind of do like. If you on...

This quarantine has lasted long enough that I actually finished editing this novel.  Now I suppose I need to make some decisions about how t...

Today is the 700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath. Longtime readers of Grim's Hall know this declaration well, but just in...

It's National Tartan Day, which is an opportunity for Americans to celebrate Scottish heritage -- both our personal heritage, and the tr...