They're probably never going to get that Trump and his enthusiasts aren't interested in preserving the GOPe. Donald Trump is on a ...

The cancel culture came for the Muppets, so I suppose Dr. Seuss is not surprising. But he was always 'woke,' as AVI points out that...

 Gives me the warm fuzzies .

I don't know how we're going to decide how much money to spend in Texas to protect against the next presumably rare extreme cold eve...

Update: I gave up swearing last year and had been doing well, until I was overcome by a confluence of unfortunate metaphysical circumstances...

I know we've had this here before, but without tags, it's hard to find stuff. So, here it is again, with tags. So we can find it nex...

I know, you've heard some of this before. So? Let's just drink it like we mean it. More below the fold

 It's pretty much spring in Texas now, but last week was a doozy.  It spurred my favorite kind of local debate, over how a community sho...

America, when it was healthy and whole.

Fine. We'll just have "sports" from now on, and if women can't hang, forget 'em.  These trans* characters can't h...

Having finished one philosophical discussion, Grim recently asked for suggestions for the next project. I suggested maybe a discussion of ho...

Winter’s almost over, kids.  Bryson City, NC, motorcycle parking. Chili burger and fries, Bryson City, as recommended by the local Harley de...

This is an interesting argument. The opening frame is worth hearing; the rest is impossible given the structures of power, so you can stop w...

I confess, I never liked to travel.  I liked being in faraway places, for a short while, at least, but getting there got to be less and less...

I'm done with the read-through of Plato's Laws . Perhaps I should now read secondary literature on it, and try to turn that into a p...

Isn't police defunding the real public health crisis confronting America today?  Why not divert COVID funding to fill the hole in Chica...

At the end of his last dialogue, Plato has his Athenian return to the subject of virtue , its divisions, and its central importance to good ...

An essay and lecture. 

 When that that happen?

It's not true that the 'Woke' are strictly Marxists, not most of them: I know some who are, strictly, but most of them are just ...