XII If you would improve, lay aside such reasonings as these: “If I neglect my affairs, I shall not have a maintenance; if I do not punish m...

A federal judge in Texas has struck down a federal mandate requiring vaccination for all federal employees.  He did not rule that vaccinati...

XI   Never say of anything, “I have lost it,” but, “I have restored it.” Has your child died? It is restored. Has your wife died? She is res...

 From a new album featuring some well-known co-stars. 

X Upon every accident, remember to turn toward yourself and inquire what faculty you have for its use. If you encounter a handsome person, y...

I find it hard to argue with Reason 's conclusion that this is outright robbery by police officers. Five times since last May, sheriff...

Sanity prevails , for the moment, and on a bipartisan basis. No Fraudulus bill this time; and a stalwart defense of minority rights on the f...

IX Sickness is an impediment to the body, but not to the will unless itself pleases. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the wi...

 

It's about 3 hours of 1930s and '40s music focused on WWII. Some of the song titles are great: The Washing On The Siegried Line Wher...

Glenn Reynolds links to a modern anti-"Lord of the Flies" story, in which a small group of shipwrecked boys survives on a seeming...

VIII Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. This is another o...

I always thought these things were ridiculous, but they're enjoying a retrospective moment. Lots of songs have recently been written abo...

 VII As in a voyage, when the ship is at anchor, if you go on shore to get water, you may amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish or a tr...

I wouldn’t link this if it was just another COVID piece, but it’s got a lot more going for it. There are lessons from scholars of the 1930s...

 VI Be not elated at any excellence not your own. If a horse should be elated, and say, “I am handsome,” it might be endurable. But when you...

It's the End Times: Even in the New Yorker , Americans are now permitted to express the former heresy that pandemic measures have both c...

HRT 1, mysterious figure 0.  We may never know what motivated this young man with a "British" accent that some might characterize ...

 V Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things. Thus death is nothing terrible, else it would have appeared ...

We're getting a bit of snow up here in the mountains overnight. I may or may not be around for a bit depending on how that goes. We'...