'We're more of a woke kind of place, really.'  "What are Yale’s promises worth? If we are to believe its lawyers in court a...

"Come and get me, copper!" I guess we're talking about psychic violence, because otherwise I can't make much sense of alle...

Tonight I'm making pulled pork and smoked chicken for my guests, the pork being a Boston butt seared on the grill and then slow cooked o...

I never thought I'd come to enjoy Matt Taibbi so much.  This was the beginning of an era in which editors became convinced that all ear...

Ezra devotes a great deal of this very interesting political analysis  of pollster-strategist David Shor to bemoaning the fact that Democrat...

 I wonder if there were any energy policies we might have been pursuing that could have avoided some of this trouble ? A "global energy...

This hearing is lawyerly but brutal . The congressman gets them to admit that they deleted the data ("but we archived it") and did...

An anonymous commenter left a link to an interesting article on the Scots language. I love linguistic history, and Scotland and things Scott...

I usually like to put the effort into teasing apart the confusing accounts of U.S. Congressional parliamentary squabbles, but I've about...

The first night I fed our guests protein-plus pasta , topped with home-canned sauces made from my garden. One of the sauces was a rich sausa...

Powerline linked to an article that tries to think sensibly about what kinds of lockdowns do more good than harm, and why predictive lockdo...

In the most famous of them all , the truck-driving singer proclaims, "I could have a lot of women, but I'm not like some of the guy...

Project Veritas nails Pfizer with multiple interviews from their scientists. Short findings: the vaccines are not as effective as natural i...

  Oppose critical race theory? You’re a terrorist. 

New South Wales's government rattles itself to pieces . In the United States, we tend to think of the Aussies as rugged individualists w...

Thoughts about reality testing, or what I would call the ostensible crime of "sowing seeds of doubt," from Jonathan Haidt at Persu...

The 82nd is a storied unit, and one of the front line forces of the United States because of their rapid deployment capability . They take p...

I saw this at Dad29 's place, and it's quite an essay . I won't excerpt it, but I will add that the king who captured Sauron and...

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