I was reading a piece about GPT and humor the other day (which I won't bother to look up again to link because I don't remember wher...

I realize not everyone here reads Instapundit, but here's a piece linked there (by one of Glenn's co-bloggers) that merits attention...

A kind of week-late addendum to the discussion of pirates and outlaws: one of the points AVI brought up was that pirates were all but certai...

The Orthosphere objects to the current formulation . A neighbor flies a colorful flag. “Love is Love” it proclaims. Since it is merely a dog...

Pat Robertson has  died at the age of 93. Robertson is a sept of the Clan Donnachaidh , my own, which is indeed sometimes called Clan Rober...

In tonight’s episode, Grim rescues some horses that had found their way out onto a twisty mountain road in the middle of the night. We were ...

We're thinking of doing a banh mi smorgasbord for a July 4th weekend BBQ. I got a cookbook in the mail and tried its recipe, and sure e...

There are size limits to knowledge; for example, we can’t say much about the world as it exists smaller than the electron scale because elec...

Canada reshuffles its acronyms. 2SLGBTQI+ terminology and acronyms are continuously evolving. In 2016, the Government of Canada began using ...

The Orthosphere has a post on the topic, which begins with a sentiment I think will be popular here: In common usage, being “educated” means...

For years we've struggled to make ordinary TexMex-dive cheese enchiladas at home. I was sure it couldn't be that complicated, consi...

 A NYT author reports that Republicans and Democrats currently express what he describes as " dehumanization " towards each other ...

[Attribution in graphic: text by Robert E. Howard , from "The Phoenix on the Sword," art by Frank Frazetta .] This essay aims to e...

Before I try to develop the essay about Conan and what that literature tells us about outlawry and civilization, I'd like to say some ge...

Today I saw an AP story that claimed that "most Americans" favor using race in college admissions. That was surprising to me, bec...

You may not know, but NATO’s Kosovo force (KFOR) has deployed in opposition to a Serbian incursion this morning. We may see yet another war ...

AVI has a fun post about a pirate museum , and some thoughts about outlawry . In the latter post he mentions Conan, who is a useful interloc...

I don’t know her well, but here she sounds like a reasonable young version of Loretta Lynn.  

Raven sends : Late last month, we reported on the case of 94-year-old grandmother Geraldine Tyler, whose Minneapolis condo was sold by Henne...