Or, an essay on the hapax . 

Here’s the Wren Song .  UPDATE: For dinner tonight I made a variation on Beef Wellington, using the eye of the standing rib roast instead of...

Obviously there is nothing to defend about the ideology of Nazi Germany, nor would I undertake such a defense. Yet I think our friends -- Se...

From James's " I don't know, but.... " site, a wonderful little explanation of the Pfizer vaccine mRNA code and, while it...

  That is a duck and bacon Great Pie in the Medieval style, spiced with cinnamon, mace, and cloves. Also a standing rib roast with an herb b...

Merry Christmas to the Hall!

A wintry, White Christmas here.    But inside the Hall, it is bright and warm.   I added my sister's glasses to the holiday decorations.

" We'll be better off without you, but it would be criminal of you to leave ." It's the classic beef of people who don...

Some advice that might be relevant to the holiday : Ath. "Of all evils the greatest is one which in the souls of most men is innate, an...

For us the Christmastide begins early: we are all in for a period that will exceed the beginning of Christmas, and may exceed its end. My wi...

 

Plato's account of who deserves honor in society continues, with a claim that is striking: Ath. "Truth is the beginning of every go...

Cimmerian ... er, Scottish meat pies.  UPDATE: After an afternoon of hiking and mountain climbing, a kitchen-sink calzone. 

  Christmastide to begin in four days. Happy Solstice and Good Yule. 

So this is done on Firefox, a browser I've never used before, which I will earnestly try to avoid allowing to be contaminated with eithe...

This section opens with an account of honor , and what it means to rightly honor one's soul and body. Plato does not use the word "...

This is the last commentary on Book IV . With the completion of Book IV, we are approximately a third of the way through the Laws . If any o...

Done on an older-than-my-laptop Dell PC running Win10Pro--this part typed in "regular" mode. This line tped in HTML. ital , bold ...

 Typed in "regular" mode. Typed in HTML view. ital , bold strikethrough . Eric Hines

Test done on a Dell Precision 3510 running Win7Pro and Firefox v 84.0 browser. Eric Hines