Let's begin with defining our terms: Next, some aspects of the legal system:

If you've never seen the BBC Documentary "The Century of the Self,"   (also at YouTube ) it is a prerequisite for this discuss...

Nashville is a mainstreaming, corporate giant that tries to force every act into the same kind of proven, salable sound. That's been tru...

A weaver friend designed and made this rug. The pattern is meant to suggest Chinese lanterns rising into a darkening sky.

I suspected JP was a conservative for some time before I saw his coming out video, but this one caught me completely by surprise. Put the dr...

 A touching father-daughter moment from BRCC ...

Careful plans are being made. According to Germany’s Ministry of Defense, all the alcohol will be repatriated before the last German boot l...

My sister sent me a copy of Circe , a novel by Madeline Miller that is built around the title character's role in Greek mythology. Altho...

This is a Leonard Cohen song, but I like what Joe Cocker and Leon Russell do with it.

A piece by the great Roy Clark. 

A reporter speaks of her harrowing experience on Long Island. Her complaint starts with American flags flying from the backs of pickup truck...

Powerline assesses the New Yorker union webpage. His favorite line (and mine) is "prestige without the pay is élitist." If you d...

I don’t know if I put this up here before, but I meant to do.  “43 has got the nerve.” Yeah he did. 

From someone named Robert Weissberg : At the core of this elitist fear of Hillbillies (aka Po White, Rednecks, or Trailer Park Trash) is the...

 

Senator Joe Manchin saves the Republic from a grave peril by an exercise of practical wisdom . Well done. 

A long time ago now, and very few are alive who remember it. Since we have had pipers this week, here’s a couple of videos remembering the ...

A book reviewed by MIT Press points out that Ted Kennedy had a KGB liaison , and that he regularly communicated with the USSR on undercuttin...

Hank Thompson on the ways that the protest movement was funded circa 1968.