Tasting History is a worthwhile YouTube channel on historical cooking. He presents historical recipes with some background and then tries th...

 A band to keep an eye on?

  Mirabile dictu : nobody in Western North Carolina has mentioned it to me either. I'm fielding a lot of questions about it from friends...

It’s made of honey. Since I’m doing Beorn’s Hall this week, I decided to brew a batch of mead. I do this in five-gallon batches. This is ten...

Beorning Honey Cakes. Recipe first, then I'll talk about it after the jump. 1 cup warm water 2 1/4 teaspoons yeast 1 stick plus 2 tables...

Today's anti-gun front-page story at WaPo is titled, "Guns are found in US schools each day. The number is soaring."  The numb...

The prior post was about a report put together by The Wise in 2019. This was their definition of "fragility" as regards states. Fr...

The recent attack on Israel by Hamas and Iran gives us an occasion to review the failures of those whose job it was to prevent such things. ...

I nearly always like cowboy songs, trucker songs, and biker songs. Here’s one of the former. 

It's just getting started here, still mostly green. If any of you are thinking of heading up to my mountains to see the show, here's...

One step being taken in Israel is very wise and proper: arm the citizen militia . “Any citizen who meets the detailed tests for carrying a p...

Just out of curiosity, how many EVs can a 'disadvantaged' community afford?  Furthermore, aren't these EV chargers nearly new j...

The 9th of October celebrates the fearless explorer. 

All cleaned up. It’s going to be 35 here tonight, heralding cold weather down the line. I took a wire brush to all the rust on the furnace. ...

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...