I haven't had a lot to say for a couple of days. Today I'm going over to my friend Patch's memorial ride. Perhaps that will prod...

Because .... Section 1.  National Emergency.  As President of the United States, my highest duty is ensuring the national and economic secur...

A rant , it claims, but also a good essay.   He quotes Aristotle differently than I would.  Aristotle agreed that the higher forms of philos...

I'm at a loss to imagine how this guy got out of Iran alive. I remember that he was under suspicion in Iran at the time of Nasrallah...

Conan and Stick, Among the Daffodils He goes through a stick every day. The whole place is covered with splinters. Somehow he doesn’t get th...

Via Whiskeyriff , a man in Georgia was arrested for leaving his kids to play at the McDonald's playground while he went to a job intervi...

Without a doubt his most famous and enduring role was as Georgia-born gunslinger "Doc" Holliday in Tombstone .  However, I particu...

  Remarkable!

No smoke plume today from the huge Table Rock fire. The storm must have helped.  Clear skies.

A commenter at Althouse responds to a post about art museums: "Museums, monuments, and public institutions should be spaces where these...

I and some friends were asked to test the quality of Egypt's 2018 election. The election was scrupulously fair, down to the maintenance ...

At least half of what the current administration is doing is highly praiseworthy: the DOGE inquiries into unconstitutional/evil spending, wa...

Um ... Can I get an amen? I heard the optics were great! This is possibly how I'll go, unless they collapse on me in an earthquake.

USMC veteran Jackson Dodd has purchased the sword that was, reportedly, at one time responsible for 80% of Marine enlistments .  You probabl...

 …and Dylan. I assume Earl Scruggs is known to everyone here, but if not meet him now. 

My neighbors, lovely, smart, kindly people, are trying to persuade us to try out Netflix's new series " Adolescence ." A sente...

Her grandfather made his own beer from things he grew in his garden. Her family helped her reconstruct it in Georgia.  Reminds me of the tal...

This video, which you may have seen elsewhere, explains why there's no broadband yet in spite of years of government machinery turning....

A series of cartoons by the AI about itself .   I hope there's not really a consciousness there. We are making a tortured thing. UPDATE:...