AP reports that some laid-off federal workers are disappointed to learn that their own family suspects their jobs weren't worth the fed...

There are only two weeks left in astrological winter, and so we should press on to finish our winter reading, which has now only one book le...

The prevailing metaphor for Act Blue this week has been rats leaving a sinking ship, but the headlong flight more closely resembles people ...

Once at Heraclea , they are greeted kindly and given fairly rich gifts -- including grain, wine, twenty cattle and a hundred sheep. However,...

This passage is read in Orthodox churches the Sunday before Lent: Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to ...

NYT : "Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America."  Amazing. We've been talking about this for years . Long enough tha...

A good Ash Wednesday to those of you who celebrate it. Now begins Lent, a long season of suffering from attempts to be even slightly better...

The Opinion section of the Washington Post is up to 100% noncompliance and rejection of Bezos' guidance. I wonder if he can find a buyer...

For years it has seemed that nearly every contentious issue in U.S. politics polls at 50/50. I wondered whether that meant parties were deli...

Some years ago I developed a chili powder recipe using datil pepper.  This week I was reflecting that, with just a touch of salt, it would m...

I don't plan to post systematically on  God Is a Man of War , but as I find interesting things I may put them here. The beginning of the...

 What other kind of man is there? 

The Sunday before Lent begins is Forgiveness Sunday in the Orthodox Church. It is a day to ask everyone for their forgiveness for any offens...

Victor David Hanson: Ten bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up 1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: th...

Bonchie sums it up on X: Overnight, the discussion has shifted from "Trump ambushed Zelensky" to "Yeah, Zelensky was rude, bu...

Now that’s marketing. 

Today we've had quite a display of how diplomacy can lead to an honest and forthright exchange of views , rather than the 'formalize...

It's just going to be one lane in each direction at first, but it will accommodate standard size-and-weight tractor trailers. That will...

Trump dealt Russia a 'devastating blow' with mineral deal, may have effectively ended the war . Strange thing to see in the Washingt...

Some impressive guitar work by a man who could fill the Ryman easily by himself, but chose to show up as a guest at Tyler Childers' show...