How often do you think about the Roman empire? I first saw this internet trend in the Babylon Bee, and was confused: Man Who Hasn't Thou...

An article at First Things has a stunning opening , then leads to a deep question. There’s a very short and very brutal poem by the Scottis...

As an addendum to the last, here's another young female singer whose work I have heard and do like. She has a similar problem -- her sit...

Via Instapundit , a 'sociological law' (subject to the same limitation as all such 'laws,' which is that they are not laws i...

That snake was in the chicken coop this afternoon, trying to feast on eggs. The only problem he had was that the real eggs get removed every...

Since we're on the subject of country music, that artist Douglas introduced us to a few weeks ago has had an interesting few weeks. I un...

Bocephus married this weekend, to a long time friend. He had spent a year in mourning for his previous wife of some 32 years after her trag...

James Russell along the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route

Baking on the hearth in an iron camp stove. Someone recently bought me a cookbook of recipes "inspired by" the world of Tolkien; I...

The governor of New Mexico has issued a decree purporting to "suspend" the right to carry a firearm in Albuquerque -- most famous...

The story is in Jacobin , whose name heralds their opinion of the philosophy without the need of reading it. Still, Wretchard took note of ...

The British have decided to protect the lands around Tintagel Castle , preserving a natural character to the area. Tintagel was of course th...

The Orthosphere on a recent sentencing in the J6 case: I believe John Derbyshire coined the phrase “cold civil war” as a name for the ever-...

The Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) has had a troubled history even before this year. As an act it is only dubiou...

Roger Stone, a man with a tattoo of Nixon on his back, suggests that it was. Hot Air is gravely upset at the suggestion: Brian Kemp didn’t s...

Two pieces today  find that the percentage is on the order of sixty. 

Yesterday I took a hike on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail . I didn't do the whole thing, just a section near Haywood Gap.  Much of the trail...

I remember first hearing this one playing on the radio in the family car when I was a kid. It gave us all a laugh and I've enjoyed his m...

Continuing the topic of rebuilding , one of the themes that emerged in the recent discussion was that of local government. AVI suggested tha...

Today I got up and lit my smoker before my first meeting. Over the course of the day, in addition to work, I smoked two whole Boston Butts a...