While he was most famous for his slide guitar, which used standard tuning instead of the more usual open tuning and a short slide that allo...

Yesterday's recipe posting has me feeling like posting some more about food. There's a lot of good food writing on the internet, and...

The local college that is putting on the EMT course for us also has training in fire fighting, motorcycle safety, casino gambling, bartendin...

In the manner of my grandmother, when I cook bacon I reserve the grease for later use. (I also reserve beef tallow and general pork lard.) T...

There is an ongoing debate about whether Brigid was an early abbess and saint whose life became intertwined with stories about an earlier pa...

The Orthosphere is being satirical today; Satyrical, even, in places. "1. Congress shall make no law respectful of religion...."

 "Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditi...

You have probably seen Hollywood movies in which, for a joke, an intensely masculine character played by someone like Sylvester Stallone or ...

While waiting for my evening flight, I visited the little riverside town of Occoquan . 

 

While here in DC, I caught up with a good friend from the Iraq war. We randomly went into an Italian restaurant because the place he wanted ...

It's a month past Christmas, but my snowflake mania hasn't abated yet.

The NYT is reporting that the Pentagon plans to increase production of 155mm artillery shells for Ukraine to 90,000 a month — in two years....

It’s always hard to leave behind someone you really love.  I mean the bike, not the Winchester ’94. I crossed the high pass at Panthertown t...

Today I am packing for another trip to the DC region, my second in a month. I will be there for a week in case any of you are passing throug...

In the comments to the post on arms below , Tom asks after two differences between the logic I offer and the one from the Declaration of Ind...

AVI mentioned the famous singer at his place yesterday. As I noted in the comments, he continues to be remembered. Here's Coulter Wall, ...

I added James' blog to the sidebar, the absence of which was merely an oversight on my part. If any regular readers/commenters have blog...

I. The Necessity of Arms to Human Dignity The necessity of arms to a dignified human being arises from self-defense. That already assumes di...

A fact about the United States that is apparently difficult to grasp is that almost all homicide happens in a very small number of neighborh...