We’ve decided to lay in a third raised bed this year, expecting food to be somewhat expensive or even somewhat short. The older beds are tu...

Restoration of a traditional practice is usually, but not always, a good thing. 

Or possibly it’s a ‘cesspool of sin,’ as this  out-of-shape Yankee * explains. Either way I was there yesterday.  The city is actually looki...

I took in this beautiful creature, Greta, several weeks ago. She turned out to be 12 years old and heart worm positive, with liver enzymes ...

This was very satisfying video of Will Smith punching Chris Rock at the Oscars. Straightforward and heartfelt. I'll bet he didn't...

Up here we’re so far from everything that whenever we call for Medivac it’s always to some totally improvised LZ. 

Over at An Eccentric Culinary History : If you want a single dramatic example of how much America has changed in the last century or so, sto...

Part of the Nantahala National Forest burned tonight, but not a very big part. The National Weather Service warned that the high winds would...

Conan The Barbarian Acquires Biology Degree So He Can Know Whose Lamentations He's Hearing Bonus: The Babylon Bee's Man Of The Year ...

 

Thirteen percent of global calories won't get raised this year due to the war in Ukraine. The US has an option here: suspend ethanol fo...

"Scientists, gender law scholars and philosophers of biology" have weighed in on the question of what a woman is and -- exactly as...

The 'very good people on both sides' slander aimed at Trump is bad enough, but -- as David Reaboi points out -- it is amazingly aw...

The ongoing saga of the Army's new fitness test has reached a crescendo. As you will recall, the Army declared it was getting rid of its...

Fitness especially may lead to terrible things . Allegedly Nazism, that perennial fear of leftists even though it’s a form of socialism.  Af...

Well, it passed through his hands anyway. It originally dates from the tenth century .

FOX News mischaracterizes Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's response as a " refusal " to give the definition of ...

Jesus is a much sterner figure than many people imagine, thinking of him as the King of Peace, Love, and Forgiveness -- which is not wrong, ...

A well-considered article in Tablet magazine warns of the perils of Trudeau-style cancelation without trial. It is a more dangerous power th...

Jordan Schachtel, a journalist who has been voicing a lot of skepticism about Ukraine, notes an odd correlation between vaccine status and s...