I have no idea of how typical these two videos of the Ukrainian and Russian armies winter diggings-in are, but to the extent they are at lea...

It takes some courage, as a poet, to substitute for a rhyme what is really an identity (as it does to substitute a near-rhyme, or a not-very...

The Orthosphere hosts a philosophical argument that skips an important step. We theists recognize two general categories of causation: mecha...

I don’t think most of us who were involved are quite old enough for the AARP, but they have a personal and compelling story from Scott Mann...

I do not watch the NFL. I never understood the appeal of professional sports compared to collegiate ones, for one thing. A college team has ...

A friend I was close to in the 1990s sent this video, which is a cover version of a song that was popular during the middle of the decade.  ...

As 'your favorite President' announces his intention to run for office in 2024, Democrats  and their allies in the press  are trying...

My original home state was Georgia, though both of my parents were from mountainous East Tennessee, and I grew up with Georgia's particu...

Partly because the Russians were never able to establish air superiority, Ukraine's on-time railroads remain the backbone of the nation...

Via Arts & Letters Daily , a review of a new translation of Ovid. One day in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon, not only a great...

As a love song strategy, I’ve heard plenty of “hey pretty lady you’d better be sure, because I am dangerous.” I don’t think I’ve heard anyon...

In the local paper today: Elections officials held a meeting this morning to clear the air about a sudden increase in ballots favoring Democ...

My father as a Vietnam-era Drill Instructor; I think he was a Staff Sergeant in this picture, but I can't see the rank insignia.  My bes...

As fond as I am of Child ballads for lo these five decades or more, I don't recall hearing "Earl Richard" until this week. Po...

For one reason and another, until just now I had never read the once-popular novel Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini . It is exactly the so...

To all the Marines in the audience, enjoy the day.  (Meme by  Gruntworks )

While the best way to study Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is to read the whole thing carefully, over and over, and then read Aquinas...

The elections are the subject of a lot of discussion today, for obvious reasons; but at least locally, things went as well as I could have w...

Last night at 1:45 AM the county paged out an all-stations-call to let us know that 911 was down, and there were large-scale phone service o...

You say it's my birthday (66).