Some of my left-wing acquaintances have explained that the apparently unprovoked attack on Israel today was surely a false flag actually ca...

Pork pie. I’ll probably make the honey cakes later this week. This afternoon, I made Bombur’s request from Bilbo’s kitchen. I rendered almos...

A neighbor enrolled my community in the Little Free Library program. Her husband built the kiosk, which she asked me to paint with local Ro...

That's the Barnyard Stompers at the nearby (well, two hours each way, but it's on a motorcycle) Bobarossa Saloon . 

The USMC doesn't use tape, never has as far as I know. The Army does that, as a way of trying to ensure that soldiers whose BMI was out ...

This is another popular explanation of just what the “imaginary” numbers are doing in the wave equation: they’re accounting for the differe...

If you have not heard of this animal, that’s because it’s been considered extinct for well over a century. Until this Australian farmer caug...

Likely most of you, not being from California, didn't hear about this incident. Fortunately, no one was killed; but the ATF jumped in on...

If you use college as a rough proxy for social class in America -- which is indeed very rough, given how big the deltas are for those who we...

As an aside, a co-blogger  at Instapundit made the following statement : The American Anthropological Association now wants to pretend that ...

Just yesterday I was complaining to a friend that the NC legislature passes so many laws that even as an attentive and involved citizen I ca...

So this weekend was the Mountain Heritage Festival at the local university, which I've blogged about several   times . This one was an e...

I spent part of last evening reading the relevant chapter of The Hobbit , just to focus a bit more on what the target is. The cuisine that ...

In honor of Bilbo and Frodo's birthday. The second experiment towards Beorning Honey Cakes is a recipe called "Twelfth Night Cake,...

Robert M. Gates is a former Secretary of Defense, controversial CIA officer -- including its Director just after the Iran-Contra period -- ...

AVI has had a series of posts on a revisionist history by an anarchist activist and a professor of archaeology. His latest quotes a review ...

A couple of months ago I sold my Jeep; a couple of weeks ago, my Ford decided it needed a new transmission valve body. This is an ideal time...

A New York judge has just ordered the Trump Organization destroyed . A Manhattan judge on Tuesday found Donald Trump and his real-estate com...

Frodo as well, as I recall, was born on the 22nd of September in Middle Earth. However, there is a slight difference in the calendars of Mid...