This trip went so “well” that I bought myself another one next month, but in the meantime it’s home for the holidays. We are wheels-up out o...

On my last night up here, a friend took me to see a holiday lights display. It was unusual.  Tomorrow afternoon I fly home, and gladly so. 

The mighty Potomac river, just at the fall line above the District of Columbia. 

One in five mail in voters from 2020’s Presidential election admit fraud . 

Or, you know, a cartoon of Trump planning the insurrection. I can't tell the difference anymore.

It’s pretty clear to me that this Ott fellow didn’t do anything that merits 20 years to life. Maybe ‘things went a little bit far,’ as he sa...

There’s actually a nice little Christmas night market going on by the National Portrait Gallery. It’s like the German ones except without mu...

A community of farmers in Mexico takes on a cartel .  The cartel had body armor and assault rifles; the farmers, shotguns and machetes. The ...

Although in general my profession pleases me, I do have to make the occasional trip to the National Capital Region . Next week will be one s...

After watching it myself, I mostly agree with CD's review here, although see below. After I saw it, I watched this and another review on...

So I saw this story about some dude who is suing to make Denver Public Schools let him put his 'Straight Pride Flag' in with the va...

Longtime readers may recall that I was once a union man, down in Savannah. Thus I can unironically bid you not to read the Washington Post ...

Annually remembered is today 1941. Hollywood movie trailers like to say that this-or-that "changed the world... forever." Japan...

The first is recent and dark humor. The second is just plain old funny.

There's some good stuff coming out, out West. There are some very good female leads right now, of whom those are two. Country music has ...

 J. Michael Waller :  It's worth remembering too that many of the Founders embraced, but others despised , the riotous destruction of pr...

Headline : "Moderate to Heavy Drinking Linked to Higher Risk of Stroke in Young Adults." Since I'm no longer young, this story...

I have decided that hallucination -- in the sense particular to AI -- is going to be a general problem for the field that they probably won...

Andrew Sepielli proposes to ground ethics a priori based on pragmatic observations. But isn't that the very distinction between a prior...

Two papers have proposed a novel theory of spacetime, one in which it functions as a mediator between the quantum physics and the classical...