Wretchard asked Chat GPT-4 who he was, to see what it knows. It's a plausible thing to do; what it knows is the internet, and we've...

It's almost as if price controls led to supply crashes: This regulatory environment explains why California insurers can’t charge rates ...

It's St. Patrick's Day, so I considered making a shepherd's pie. I ended up making jambalaya. Both of these dishes are alike in ...

 I always feel like I ought to include some religious content, it being a feast day, so here's a prayer called "the Deer's Cry,...

"Universal school choice is growing in popularity across the United States, with Florida becoming the fourth in the nation to pass suc...

This afternoon Grim's Hall is 20 years old.  Looking back, the very first post was a call not to censor even a radical "jihadist...

No thanks to the mainstream press, which mostly depicts the Dutch farmers as budding Nazis if they cover the protests at all, but here's...

While it's fun to lambast Silicon Valley Bank for having a risk manager who, shall we say, was focused in a less-than-helpful woke direc...

I was in Asheville again yesterday, crossing east of the French Broad River as usual in support of my wife's artistic endeavors. While i...

H/t Powerline : Imagine the pretzels you'd need to twist your brain into to come out with a rationale like this : Last month the Califo...

A new recipe for baked potatoes from a new cookbook: slice them very thin, toss them in butter and rosemary, arrange them in a pan, and bak...

This is a song with an impressive recording history, including multiple hit versions and covers by great names. The thing is, I don’t think...

Moody’s just cut the entire US banking system’s rating to negative. 

Banking isn't as mysterious as we make it out to be. Adam Kessler at the WSJ sums up Silicon Valley Bank neatly: Management screwed up...

The BB had an amusing video series on Californians who moved to Texas. Apparently that’s just as real a divide if you’re also Mexican. 

This week was Bob Wills’ birthday. 

There is some good songwriting on display here. Bluegrass covers of Simpson's existing music.

From Julie Kelly . Among the most disgusting claims about the January 6 riot is the notion that half a dozen officers were killed. One of...

The Cambridge Elements series on women in the history of philosophy is available for free download through the end of next week. They did a...

OpenAI, the same company that put out Chat GPT, also has an illustrator. I asked it to give me illustrations of the Elric the Barbarian sto...