Trying to post an image, but getting weird obstruction from Google, which shows that I'm signed in but keeps asking me to sign in. Scro...

According to the Havamal dictum that you don’t praise a day until evening, today was a good day.  Up by Craggy Gardens. Near Mt. Mitchell. ...

Just the other day we were talking about Trump needing to fear assassination . I figured someone would try to kill him sooner or later. Ther...

I recall that AVI visited Craggy Gardens on a recent trip. Maybe he’ll link his post in the comments.  The “Federal Facility” they are threa...

Highway 281 could use some attention, NCDOT .  My son and I are riding up to the Grandfather Mountain Scottish Highland Games. There may be ...

 

As Kim Strassel points out, it's the abysmal policies: Don’t forget how a man pushing 80 came to office. The 2020 Democratic primary wa...

Fort Liberty (known as Fort Bragg until this administration) is training its gate guards on threats.  Not fake news: FT Liberty Public Affai...

As the editor points out in commentary to a link Tex posted in the comments, there's an exception on the subject of immigration; but in ...

The North Carolina Board of Elections has decided not to allow three third parties on the ballot for the general election this year — but th...

Articles like this Guardian piece confuse me. The authors seem to be serious, but there's such a looking-glass quality to the argument...

I built that toy for him when he was a little puppy . 

The NYT explains  France: A coarsening of public discourse and contempt for mainstream parties have politicians on both sides denouncing wha...

A series of pre-election lawsuits against bad voting practices has been initiated by the GOP. This is one of the things that was missing in...

Don’t be so dramatic, Conan. It’s just a bath.

Inspiring before and after pictures of our most recent dog rescue: 58 lbs., which was skeletal, to 89 lbs., which appears to be his ideal w...

DB: "President who dropped Afghans from sky asks why you thought Gaza pier would go any better."

I really like our local paper, the Smoky Mountain News , in spite of its very clear liberal bent. They do good journalism and get the facts ...

It's an interesting feature of the French constitution that the loss of an election can allow the sitting-but-just-voted-against Preside...

  The band Lucero wrote a song about the book, The Bikeriders, back in 2005. Unsurprisingly, it was included in the movie soundtrack. It’s ...