Texas Monthly , a supremely annoying publication, is sad about the "lurch to the right" in this week's Texas primaries. The p...

FPC has a proposition.  We usually avoid that sort of language around here, out of courtesy and a desire to accommodate people of gentle tem...

Might as well keep on riding if you manage it. 

This essay begins with an interesting set of questions and  observations : Is a god, or any divine power, only a mirage of the human-made po...

So the activists swept the contests; apparently those big money donations really help you in getting your name out. For the example I gave y...

 A metal version of Anvil Of Crom to get you over the midweek point.

There’s a chance you might not know this one either. 

 I never knew this existed until this evening.

A paramedic is being sent down for five years for miscalculating a dose during an emergency.  Peter Cichuniec on Friday was sentenced to fi...

I can't recall ever being less excited to vote in an election. My normal heuristic for primaries -- vote against every incumbent, accord...

So says Keith Olbermann , on the X platform, following a unanimous ruling from all wings of a divided Court on a contentious topic. I have l...

As Ed Morrisey says , "the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments exist to limit states' powers, not to add to them." The Supreme Co...

Fair Warning: I don't think there is any actual country music in this post.  

Congratulations to the dog, whose name is also Conan (Gaelic: "Little wolf"), on surviving to his first birthday.

The other day AVI had a post on self-observation. AVI himself raised the issue that it can tie one in knots, and is 'no picnic.' Alt...

Dad moved to Atlanta in the early 1970s to work for Southern Bell after he got out of the Army. These are the kind of songs he would have he...

Just to illustrate the longetivity of this casting scheme, I'd like to tell a funny story that was told to me nearly thirty years ago by...

I keep pointing out the Joe Bob Briggs lecture called "How the Rednecks Saved Hollywood," in which he explains that once you could...

The Supreme Court's questioning on this 'bump stock' case suggests that they're getting bogged down on the question of wheth...