Jerry Lee Lewis , wildest of pianists and rockabilly lord, died this week after a false report earlier in the week. He was recently inducted...

The Biden administration put out a National Security Strategy last year; the Office of the Secretary of Defense has now put out its companio...

Professor Emeritus Ann Sheffield begins with the Saga of Olav Tryggvason . It's about twenty minutes for those of you who, like me, enjo...

Definitely a confirmation bias issue here, but this does fit my experience of the people I have personally known who  partake in this stuff ...

One of these is me, Christmas 2008. One of the others in the photo, a good friend of mine, sent it to me today. I must have been just back f...

The Washington Post has an exposé today on exploitation of female bodybuilders . Because of the well-known differential in average male and ...

 

Do yellow jackets get drunk? A social experiment: UPDATE: Apparently. This one’s definitely not walking straight anymore, and I’ve had to fi...

 

Thomas Doubting happened across a Scottish Highland Games somewhere or other -- he'll have to tell you the story -- and sent me some pho...

I  mentioned Nimrod here just this week, but apparently not that many people knew  the Biblical figure and the meaning got transformed.

 

A very disturbing tale at Rolling Stone . [A neighbor] inched closer to get a better vantage, when he saw an olive-green Lenco BearCat G2, a...

It is a fact that both of the two most famous writers of late Medieval/early Modern English have long been suspected of rape. Now it appears...

In Canada, the health care system has been pushing euthanasia as a cost-cutting solution on patients with expensive care. In Georgia, we ha...

Not just 'growing weak,' although the WSJ headline frames it that way. Conservative flagship think tank Heritage says that the sta...

Many years ago, we had a discussion about polygamy here that produced a novel argument from Elise about why it was incompatible with our leg...

A nice little farm in a Carolina valley. Atop a bridge over a county line. Above Lake Fontana.

One from James, on the disciplines of patience; and one from the Orthosphere, reminding us that there were  two beasts .  Now 'beast...

Yesterday we went west to the Stecoah Valley, where there is a cultural center that was holding a harvest festival . The cultural center is...