My first batch of mead. I started this Thursday and didn't have time to post until today, only to see Grim had already posted on mead ma...

When I first named this “Grim’s Hall” I had in mind a meadhall , like Beorn’s Hall or Hereot . Now, twenty years and more on, I make sure to...

So I learned this recipe from a guy, but his version lacks a lot of the smoke flavor. He gets some from the Jack Daniels, but then he uses j...

The Army Times has a fun retrospective this week on an incident in which a relieving aircraft carrier was bedeviled with greased pigs .

These statistics are subject to some manipulation, though mostly at the local level,* so it is less likely than with the 'happy-happy-jo...

As this NYT article summarizes, Freaknik was a party in Atlanta in the springtime that involved very large crowds of young people, almost en...

Reason magazine says that Jackson's words on free speech are being misconstrued . You can consider their arguments if you like. The gove...

Chicago is suing Glock, manufacturer of one of the most popular lines of handguns in the world, because criminals have figured out a way to ...

It’s unusual for the equinox to arrive on the 19th, but Spring began at 11:06 PM local time. The winter was mild, and there were several goo...

HotAir sings the praises of Vinay Prasad today, a man remarkable chiefly for his insistence on data and properly conducted experiments befo...

It’s 65 years ago this classic came to be.  The film was a response to High Noon , which Howard Hawks and John Wayne considered against the ...

A day late for St. Patrick’s feast, but delicious all the same. 

Politico is struggling to understand the voters' response to the lawfare against ex-President Trump. For months there has been the disc...

Or is it just me? Cuz this is exactly how spring works here.

In New Jersey as elsewhere , the gun crime rate has declined as gun carry permits have sharply increased. One point of interest in the NJ re...

Nearby Asheville is having soaring population growth since COVID taught Americans that (a) some of them could work from anywhere, and (b) th...

On his new album, Willie Nelson covers Rodney Crowell's "The Border." Here's the original.

 Just in case you need to travel to the Roman empire ...

Neil Young comes crawling back to Spotify after his alternatives also pick up the Joe Rogan podcast, which occasioned his departure as he v...