Pretty little town.  I’m going to try a short 544 mile ride tomorrow to get ahead of some weather. Wish me luck. 

I haven’t been to Alabama since I was a boy, but I’ll be there in another thirty miles. Riding down to Mobile for a strongman competition, a...

Different perspectives. 

Much of the second half of the document is of historical interest, especially for those wanting to see how the conditions in Weimar Germany ...

Weber goes on to argue that party politics tends to order itself around one bourgeois party and a second party built around more novel idea...

The pattern center in my brain is ascendant again, firing up like a fireworks display.  Since all I want to do is crochet lace, maybe I ough...

The current leadership of labor unions has strange ideas about their members’ interests.  So now we have the Pipefitters Union against ...

A rash acquiescience in the request of a departing commissioner to take on his committee assignments left me on the governing board of the c...

I'm not going to jump into this latest cultural propaganda push to get you to abandon meat, as all of you are too sensible for such foo...

Flirting with treason , again, which I suppose is better than his history of wholly embracing it . Perhaps he's learned... nothing, obvi...

I'm listening to an audio version of " The Gene " by Siddhartha Mukherjee, which turns out to be more of a history of science ...

The history of political parties in Early Modern Europe looks a lot like Bolshevism, Weber notes, in two different respects that might surp...

Weber has an interesting reading of both. Lawyers, he says, are the only ones who can make a good argument for a good case. Anybody can make...

The next several pages are a worthy history of the problem, which I will neither quote nor summarize. I do recommend reading it. The one pa...

It's common for states to have 'required classes' of politically-mandated nonsense that end up forcing high school students to s...

The problem with having a state that requires constant administration in order to maintain its position of power is that you need people who...

A full audit of the votes in Maricopa County, the most populous county in Arizona, has been ordered by the state senate. The Democratic Part...

Legitimacy may be grounded in several ways, but power is grounded only in one. How do the politically dominant powers manage to maintain the...

I added James' blog, which I don't think I realized existed until this week. If any other regulars have blogs that aren't listed...

Weber states that there are three justifications that states use to show that they are the legitimate locus of the sole right to use violenc...