Unexpectedly, the Washington Post writes an in-depth piece about one of the great rodeo riders of our day.  From under a black felt cowboy ...

By the great Stoney Edwards, he followed Charley Pride’s success and made this song a hit in 1973. 

Daniel C. Dennett died today at the age of 82. His work on intentionality -- by which he meant the inside-your-mind view of yourself, as we...

Possibly not a great one. The mission to build a floating pier off Gaza isn't going well Beege Welborn hopes it will be at least a help...

I have returned to my mountain fastness, after an exhausting near-week in Vegas.  The spring has advanced rapidly in my absence. When I left...

One of the things I’m doing out here is visiting with the UFC. View from the VIP gallery.

The one thing that isn’t fake in this town is the beautiful Mojave sky. This was taken by the roller coaster in the same casino with the bar...

Everything in Vegas is fake, but this is a special case of fake. Coyote Ugly is a fake Vegas version of a fake Hollywood version of a fake...

The weather is nice in the Mojave right now. I’m in town for a few days on business, if any of you happen to be out this way.  The worst pla...

She was looking through old papers today, and… ...I came across a letter written by your 4 year old preschool teacher. It said you had hit a...

Unfortunately the undesirable compromise seems to have emerged . Apparently part of the compromise was reducing the term of the renewal fro...

A chief item of the long-held desiridata of the gun control movement has been to 'close the gun-show loophole,' which we have discus...

I won't go so far as to say that it was an act of political virtue or wisdom, but it's a win for American liberty  all the same. Hop...

I can only be amused by the prospect of young people with absurd notions of effective public policy announcing that they're going to giv...

Everybody knows that John B. Stetson invented the famous version of the American cowboy hat, but even I had never heard until today who inve...

This self-critical view from the inside is going around today. It's always good to see people reflecting on themselves in this way, and...

With everything wrong with education, I would think this scandal wouldn't merit an article. "Over $100" was spent for a dubiou...

Apparently the day after National Tartan Day is National Beer Day , which I didn't find out about in time to celebrate the holiday. It m...

Today is National Tartan Day, and more importantly the anniversary of one of humanity’s greatest political documents. The Declaration of Arb...

My dearest friend in the world, to say the least about her that can be said, told me last night that she has a cancer that has spread to her...