South into Transylvania County. North towards the Parkway.  A brief break at a taproom on the south end of NC 215. UPDATE: Afterwards I rode...

 Via Raven, an outrageous story. It's in Reason magazine, not a particularly hot-headed place. The prosecutors, who were found to have c...

The discussion of genealogy interested several of you, so here's a piece Dad29 sent me yesterday on the Celtic influence on the American...

The son of a Communist endorses defunding the FBI, which ruined his father’s life. 

I don't think I've seen Lefty here before, though maybe I've missed him or forgotten. In the early 1950s he was probably as popu...

It's only market capitalization . That stuff is fairy gold. The real problem is they aren't selling beer , either.  Comedians used t...

It's been a while since I posted anything from Sose the Ghost, but this piece struck me. It compares the stories of David Allan Coe and ...

In the last post, I mentioned that enmity has lingered since at least the 90s. I was thinking of active government enmity, but the cultural ...

This is an observation that sounds like a reliable indicator of genuine privilege. …the observation from William Dean Howells that the prob...

You probably won’t read this in an American paper, and the speech was carefully given overseas. Specifically, in Ulster.  The family ties t...

An insider I talked to this week characterized this as "worse than Manning," a locution that I notice avoids assigning a first na...

This has a kind of Reformation-era feel. 

Probably many of you remember this case. On Friday, 37-year-old Army sergeant Daniel Perry was found guilty of fatally shooting Garrett Fost...

I took the dog to his first VFD meeting and training session, which was on the setting up of helicopter landing zones for extractions. As yo...

Speaking of rescue, a neighbor recently lost control of a power tool of some kind and gashed his leg badly, apparently at least knicking the...

Look how just a little preparation allows one man to save another from a tree well. 

My congregation is pretty elderly, but at Easter we get a pretty good crop of young people. Our pastor brings out a plain wood cross with s...

By chance coincidence, AVI just had a post last week about this in which he wisely warned against such things. An ancient inscription I al...

It’s a glorious morning in South Carolina. May your feast day be wonderful.  UPDATE: Turtle on the Catawba. Rift .

This weekend brought me to Charlotte.  Their website is ten years out of date, apparently, and it’s much too uptown to be a Viking bar. The ...