The second matter from Book XI that draws my attention is the question of disposing of one's property in a last will and testament. Now,...

It's clear from the length and rambling nature of this that he's uncomfortable talking about why he's abandoning use of the titl...

Per D29, the UK has decided to issue Do Not Resuscitate orders for COVID patients with 'learning disabilities.'   People with learni...

A nice change from the rhetoric of recent years. UPDATE: Jack Posobiec claims the article is fake , though he links to no evidence. 

You might have thought that we'd adequately covered business transactions in previous books, but no, it's the subject of Book XI as...

He should have known he had nothing to fear from Federal prosecutors . Not even now. 

The CDC now says that people who have completed their two-dose course of the vaccination and waited two weeks no longer need to quarantine ...

Thanks to James (h/t AVI ) for this Australian trucking song.  Now, I grew up with trucking thanks to my grandfather, but 'I've got ...

This will be the last bit on the tenth book , after which we will move on to the final sixth of the Laws . The Athenian returns to the idea...

During the Obama years, I used to ride from one dying town to another along rural highways. They were drying up. People moved to bigger citi...

There remain two very important matters in Book X : the problem of evil, and how to avoid blasphemy and impiety in society. We'll tackle...

In my county there's almost no black community to speak of, so I don't know what's going on with the national "Tuskegee all...

A vacation goes wrong Oh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get w...

So here is the argument for the divinity of the sun . It's long, so buckle up. Step one: establish that the soul can't be accounted ...

Sometimes a crochet pattern takes forcible possession of my brain. My sister keeps sending me these. I know I'm going to have to pick ...

So, the Athenian lays out his plan to prove the existence of gods. Along the way, he establishes one should 'hate and abhor' those w...

Pirate, duelist, mutineer , and the first enslaved man in America -- well, except for those enslaved by Native Americans, of course. It'...