My mother reminds me that the father of a friend of mine was the last person sent to prison for making moonshine. His son later married one ...

AVI reposted this regional dialect quiz.  The biggest difference between my dialect and the one native to these mountains is that I was rai...

A Congresswoman from Georgia is being grilled today over whether her attempts to raise questions about the 2020 elections -- which, to be cl...

The Biden administration moves to force religious health care workers to violate their faith, or else lose their jobs. If their kids are goi...

Two more from the Paper of Record.

This is a longer piece at Task & Purpose, which is very critical of the USMC's new force development plan . Here is their summary: F...

I am a big fan of lever-action rifles . I don’t think any of these tips are very surprising, but it was fun thinking about shooting anyway. 

SpaceX is beating Russian jamming -- and the DOD's capabilities to do the same. 

Speaking of the bad precedent we set with unjustified mask policies, this Powerline article pretty much nails the legal frailty of the CDC ...

Masks are a touchy subject, and when I elect to post about the statistical evidence about the efficacy of any COVID strategy, I hesitate to ...

Judging solely by the heuristic that she has dyed her hair light blue into middle age, I assume that Dr. Cathy O'Neil and I don't sh...

...and this is particularly beautiful and of the season- I wish it were longer, but their primary job is education.  Perhaps if we're lu...

When we lived in China more than twenty years ago, I used to punish bad students by making them stand up and sing their national anthem. Bei...

There's a new genre of "how I transformed from a leftist to a conservative" stories, all fascinating, but this is one of the ...

Some reflections on the divine consciousness on Easter, inspired by a pair of posts by AVI. What was it like for God to look down upon his s...

When I was a youth I loved The Three Musketeers . I eventually read all million-plus words of the full series, though none of it was as sati...

Gandalf responded to “Good morning!” rather explosively in The Hobbit. I mean that it is a pleasant evening, and I hope that yours is good a...

Can Elon Musk be stopped ? They'll pull out all the stops to try. He's an existential threat, according to their own sniveling, hy...

When Texas Gov. Abbott first started threatening to ship illegal immigrants to blue strongholds, my concerns were only two: I don't wan...

More wrench-turning this morning. I actually like vehicle maintenance as long as nothing goes wrong. This morning I set up my grandfather’s ...