5/12/25 Update: I've decided to add a bit of content advisory to this video. It's Willie Nelson & some fellow named Orville Peck...

Congratulations to Pope Leo XIV ; may he be guided to wisdom in his new role. I know nothing about the man at all, having never heard of him...

I had to dig to the bottom of the big chest freezer for my wife today, and while I was there I remembered I still had the head of the deer I...

In Alabama, a Grand Jury -- famously an institution that will indict a ham sandwich -- just no-billed 58 felony cases over police corruptio...

I'm going to give them some leeway on this one because they open with an acknowledgement that Castro was, inter alia , an authoritarian....

This is a short bit of thinking-out-loud from the Orthosphere, which isn't wholly wrong; I just want to take a moment to point out that...

I saw one of these the other weekend while I was at the Spring Bash. It's a great looking motorcycle, intended for offroad as well as ...

It's quite a change to go from a dense academic history with vast footnotes to a collection of short stories about magic. Our good frien...

Dad29 wants to update us that he has found a version of the old Catholic Encyclopedia online; the entry on the Cathars is here . The whole e...

Following the British decision to adopt a left-wing government that is now prosecuting thousands on free-speech issues, both Canada and now ...

Willrich, Michael.  American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Centur...

  By an 'independent investigation' they mean exactly what our Democratic friends mean when they say that the Department of Justice ...

Harmeet K. Dhillon,* Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, has joined the Solicitor of the United States in asking the Supreme Court...

  By the end of the year, although Trump is still president, Rubio runs the entire government. Hey, we're only 100 days in. It could hap...

The NYT/Esquire style guy didn't like Hegseth's , but apparently I spoke too soon in saying they wouldn't like mine. They just d...

The sponsor of the EMS bill here in NC that we were recently discussing has given way a bit . HB-675 would eliminate the state standard — a...

The Fugio cent coin of 1787, also known as the Franklin cent because Benjamin Franklin reputedly designed, had a different national motto t...

This is the first time I've ever heard it suggested that we don't know what the Cathars believed. “Cathars”–the target of (a) the fi...