XIX You can be unconquerable if you enter into no combat in which it is not in your own power to conquer. When, therefore, you see anyone em...

 When you've lost the NYT . . . .

  I'm 65, and while I understand in a general way what Spotify is, it's not for me.  Some years ago when we were trying to install a...

XVIII When a raven happens to croak unluckily, be not overcome by appearances, but discriminate and say, “Nothing is portended to me, either...

Ironically this album, "Armed & Crazy," was considered important by the jury in sentencing our brother Jonny Paycheck to priso...

Maryland still doesn't want to impose the ugly duty of appearing in classrooms on its vulnerable teacher population, so it sent the kids...

It's a by-now-familiar issue: nobody actually changed the laws via the legislature, they just acted as if the laws were different than t...

Example the First. We have a community pool, built a couple of decades ago. Popular lore suggests that all the local governments committed...

An innovative defense of the effectiveness of home-nonschooling in the COVID age: Even the Democrat-led city government of San Francisco ha...

XVII Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses—if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one...

XVI When you see anyone weeping for grief, either that his son has gone abroad or that he has suffered in his affairs, take care not to be o...

I decided to clean the guns the other day. Nothing like a little 'Western' music to make that task a happier one.   

At long last, S. Ct. Justice Breyer has seen the elephant in the abysmal polling on the future of the U.S. Senate after November 2022, and a...

Interesting warning: We currently have no Duke of Edinburgh, York or Sussex. I don’t want to alarm anyone but we are again exposed to Vikin...

XV Remember that you must behave as at a banquet. Is anything brought round to you? Put out your hand and take a moderate share. Does it pas...

In an amazing article that should not be excerpted, Vox wonders aloud. 

In general our political system would garner a lot more support if it stopped with the pretext nonsense and worked out compromises on the u...

We'd do better addressing real environmental threats if we quit destroying our credibility with preposterous  pretexts like this. What c...

There's nonsense talked about a lot of things, of course, but sometimes I think the greatest nonsense is reserved for what passes for di...