Although a bit dark, the article does have some mild suggestions to make motorcycle rallies safer: Organ Donations, Transplants Increase on ...

A post at the Foundation for Economic Education on our favorite riddle .  It was not until many years later, while studying Ludwig von Mises...

The Orthosphere offers a striking proposal on the fall of Rome. It was at one time a commonplace among historians that Rome had failed for d...

Japan in 1941 wasn't always bent on war with the United States; but it was bent, from the late 19th century, on becoming a high tech eco...

A new sport takes shape (h/t Instapundit). I propose that points be awarded on a scale of how many vehicles are able to pass relative to ho...

Today is the Feast of St. Andrew, which is also a national holiday in Scotland. For those few Scots who still speak Gaelic, which has not be...

Today we had an emergency medical call to a house in a remote mountain community, one where most of the houses are out of sight of the main ...

I've been reading excerpts from Vaclav Havel's work for decades, so I guess it's time I read his epochal book, The Power of the ...

It's probably less significant than you think , even if you're a skeptic.  

My mother was one, more or less. Technically she was from Bearden -- "Bear den" -- which is a bit south of the city limits. If you...

  A bit behind ...

  I had wanted to locate the tree more centrally, but a certain fuzzy grey bandit requires that I keep it lashed to the wall if I don’t want...

I never realized before now that the beginning of Advent also  begins the liturgical year, but that makes a great deal of sense. 

As I may have mentioned before, a good friend of mine builds electric motorcycles as a hobby. (He and I have a lot in common -- I met him in...

 UPDATE: Director Robert Rodriguez had a similar idea. I also saw this classic this morning:

It's not what I would do, I'm sure. It's a good thing everyone isn't like me. “It’s the reflex. Go! Go to the fire. Stop t...

A reporter assigned to craft a hit piece mistakes her job for actual journalism, and does that instead . There's a man-bites-dog story f...

"A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything." -Wash The Hunter Biden laptop story is lik...

I came across this in a Gutenberg project I'm working on, about pictures: "... Rossetti saw the Blessed Damosel leaning from the g...

… just like everybody else .  The article, if you like, is about why nonconformists like hipsters end up looking just alike even as they...