What is the biggest danger to the world? Some people might reasonably claim that it was Artificial Intelligence , especially since the Penta...

This is not dinner-table fare, so I'll put it past the jump. I trust your judgment about whether or not you would enjoy reading such thi...

AVI mentions a preference for the former ( a la Socrates ): I think it best to weight heavily the opinions of those who read/hear their opp...

My long absence has been due in part to falling down the rabbit hole of dog rescue. In October, the county shelter's population explode...

Spatchcocking a turkey is almost like carving a Blood Eagle, except that you don’t have to pull the lungs out and salt them because they wer...

The Army/Navy game will feature West Point players in uniforms honoring the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War. They’ll have Rocky the b...

We are still under a burn ban here, but in the nearby* Great Smoky Mountains National Park the main road through is closed due to snowfall a...

A good story from the German invasion of Poland.

Maryland’s 30-day waiting period to begin its 7-day additional waiting period to buy a handgun has been ruled unconstitutional . 

A laugh line from The Blues Brothers , filmed when a lot of radio stations claimed to play "Country/Western music," the real joke ...

There's been quite a bit of talk about the possibility that Israel intends to purge Gaza, perhaps by driving the population into Egypt -...

Some of you may recall AVI talking a while back about a conference he went to on the Inklings, which included a talk about the Holy Grail by...

Reading up a bit on the history of swing music at Wikipedia , it apparently developed out of 1920s & '30s jazz. "The name deriv...

Via D29, who says I'm "the only quasi-hillbilly I know." I reckon I'm a true hillbilly: my folk have been up in Appalachia...

This is a good song for rolling on a motorcycle. You can be high on that, no lie. At its best it’s like nothing else. 

There is controversy over this becoming popular with many of the young, who do not remember 9/11 and have been raised to believe in such nar...

So today I saw this chart , which claims that Americans' confidence in government is 'far below the global average.' You can see...

Anybody who has watched a few spaghetti westerns knows that Italy's take on American stories is going to be wildly different from the Am...

Proudly modeling his new collar.