The Devil’s Courthouse in autumnal glory. 

I don't know how to embed twitter videos here, so here's a link to America's youngest Roman legionnaires . (H/t Ace's Overni...

 

The mother was just out of frame. These little fellows are here most evenings. The sign you can barely make out behind them reads, “NO HUNTI...

This fellow is probably about 11 feet long. A neighbor snapped that picture from the local beach road, probably about 30 feet away. We...

Archaeologist Michèle Hayeur Smith at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has discovered that Viking women weaved a highly standar...

The Intercept has an investigative journalism piece about the CIA's, and Russia's, failures in Ukraine. I was struck by this explana...

The law in NY that was allowed to go into effect even though it was unconstitutional has now been partly halted, for being unconstitutional ...

Forbes has taken up with something called the "National Voter Education Week Steering Committee." Nothing called a "steering...

The old cyberpunk motto from the late 70s/early 80s was 'information wants to be free.' The internet's promise was that it would...

October is my favorite month of the year. The color has only just begun to appear here, and is very far from its eventual glory. The riding ...

Another gone home.  UPDATE: Any Loretta Lynn fans might find my choice of songs surprising. She had 14 songs banned from the radio, often f...

An actual amicus brief before the Supreme Court, by The Onion .

The [University of Georgia's] comparative literature, English, history, religion and sociology departments do not have any Republicans t...

Whoever writes these things for Joe has a great opening line. My dad used to say, “Joey, don’t compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to th...

George Washington's Farewell Address is increasingly relevant today. One of its three lessons was that faction must not come to dominate...

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) says that he is being told by FBI insiders that there is a purge against whistleblowers criticizing the FBI...

The rain was still in Savannah at sunset, but the farthest cloud wall was visible in the south. Rain originally was predicted to start tonig...

Legal Insurrection cites the LA Times : In asking for a warrant to search private safe deposit boxes, FBI did not disclose its intention to...