These things are the size of peaches, to which they are closely related. My wife and son planted some raw almonds and now we have a tree.  T...

Last night my wife and I rode over to a mountain town and heard a local band singing the old songs, then we rode back on the very edge of a ...

Conservative political thought can have limits, as when Aragon offered a revolutionary return of the king. It also seems to draw pretenders ...

I believe most of you regularly read AVI's page, but I would like to direct your attention to this post in particular. 

We do now have a couple of economic proposals from the Harris campaign. The Washington Post was so upset about one of them that it attacked ...

Around the time of "Snowball Earth," what is now Scotland was near the equator. As such, an outcropping of rocks from the Inner He...

Let's say your ancestors put up a fence 75 years ago, and your neighbors never said anything about it in all that time. So you put up a ...

There's only so much a man can do.

A fingerprint of the Altar stone proves that it came from Scotland, not Wales as long thought. 

A new interpretation of a Viking Age runic inscription tells us some things about costs and fines . The new interpretation shows that the Vi...

I’m not myself; I have complete faith in my wife of 25 years. Some are though. 

The news headlines you see may be written by political campaign operatives rather than editors.  Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign tea...

I heard an Australian comedian tell the following joke, and actually laughed out loud at the punchline. It's the sort of humor that'...

Google is being a real pain. I can’t comment myself half the time. It really hates VPNs right now; if I turn mine off long enough to post th...

Tom expressed several of Aristotle's political points on tyranny in the comments to a recent post . Thoughtful people on both sides of t...

This is a charming review of Dubois, Wyoming's  best dive bar , as well as the other bar. I've been to the Outlaw Saloon and it is d...

Police interacting with American citizens often kill their dogs as a precautionary practice -- indeed, not just 'often,' but at leas...

This piece at PJ Media on the problems associated with radical Islam -- murders of children, sometimes on a grand scale, among those problem...

I still can't embed images, but the caption is "Tim Walz backs out of VP nomination after learning VPs sometimes have to deploy to ...

One of the old milblog crew came up with this. This is a challenge coin  made up by our Mr. Walz with a Command Sergeant Major insignia on i...