Foreign Affairs is one of those publications for those who think that managing the world is their calling in life. They've published a ...

  It has begun. We're expecting, according to the weather service, somewhere between 2 inches and a foot of snow. Given how unpredictabl...

Just under sixteen minutes of myth-busting from a historian speaking against a fake claim by another historian (but a well-credentialed one)...

The little town where my mother, sister, and niece live has lost a locally famous one. Her name was Clementine. 

The real point of the article mentioned yesterday was to uphold the idea that some things are worth the time they take, most especially the ...

All our best to the brave men and women of the LAFD  as they risk their lives today.

There is a distinction between honor and honors, the latter being ways of showing appreciation and respect and the former being the quality ...

James linked an interesting article on magic and the modern world , one that deserves some commentary.  To be modern, almost by definition, ...

We got that big oak I mentioned a few posts below cut into sections and off my neighbor’s fence today. It needed a tractor and a square-body...

You wouldn’t think that you could have a winter storm and a raging fire at the same time, but a little after midnight we managed it. Kerosen...

 Scottish musician KT Tunstall tells a funny story here. She's not our usual fare here, so maybe a couple of introductory tunes are in o...

The Worst Month We are currently experiencing the first of what are said to be three Arctic blasts, accompanied by a great deal of rain loca...

The link between good sleep and a sound mind may have to do with the way that dreams deal with memories. One might think that the engagemen...

My mother kindly sent me this as a gift this Christmas, thinking I might need a solar generator in case of another hurricane. This product i...

I have finally found an internet link to the 1987 film "Life Story: The Race for the Double Helix," with Jeff Goldblum and Juliet ...

I have spent a lot of my life with Medieval texts , as have many of you.  Boston University is offering a graduate-level “Medieval Trans Stu...

I'm not in principle opposed to commutations of sentences or even pardons. It's a royal prerogative that for some reason the Founder...