Today I went to the Asheville Celtic Festival to see Albannach . The Festival has a mini-Highland Games out back, and many of my Strongman f...

There's a longstanding debate about what it means for music to be "country music." Country music is a genre unto itself, with ...

This is a unique moment as far as I can recall, having followed this debate for decades: a sane and salient point on the viability of mutu...

Our county has "staffed recycling centers" where you can bring your trash for free,* provided that you have separated the recyclin...

The town of Jedburgh is having its ball game today. The Jethart Ba', which looks like a game of street rugby, dates back hundreds of y...

The word February comes down to us from a Latin word for a purification or a means of such. Apparently the Latin spelling was reintroduced ...

Waiting to fly out of AVL airport today, I saw an F-22 launch from this non-military field. The airport bartender said she’s been seeing a l...

I'm taking a short trip to Texas tomorrow. I don't know that any of you regulars are in Dallas, but I'll be in town for one nigh...

A woman brought an AR-15 to a megachurch and opened fire, fortunately not apparently knowing how to use the thing very well. The Washington ...

Abyssus Abyssum Invocat. 

A recent post was titled "The Uselessness of International Institutions." It turns out, however, that the UN did manage to be usef...

James put up a post a few days ago that I think is very worthy, as is AVI's comment there. I did not myself comment upon it at the time...

Janet left an interesting closing comment on our discussion below, which discussion was itself also I think of interest. I had not heard o...

A local act with national recognition , Outlaw Whiskey held an album release party tonight in Bryson City (a “city” more by custom and tradi...

He didn't much like Toby Keith's drinking songs, so maybe he can find one he likes here. And if you enjoy cameos, videos 1 & 4 w...

A columnist at the Washington Post raises her complaint , but the force of the article is a discussion she had with a reformer who has some ...

I’m not sure who told Stephen Green that the CIWS ‘had never been fired in combat’ before. Maybe it is true that the Navy never fired one, ...

Tough week .

I attended an online talk today by Justice Professor Elyakim Rubinstein, formerly a senior diplomat and Deputy Chief Justice of the Israeli ...