The Atlantic suggests that Hamas has taken on starvation of its own people as a weapon of war.  In recent days, I’ve spoken with dozens of ...

Travel over the NC/TN border continues to be a problem after Helene. Every hard rain seems to produce a new land slip along the narrow pass...

Sometimes they have allies.  Tough stuff.

The following is probably the least interesting of Aristotle's virtues to most of us, simply because it is out of our range to do either...

Like you, I was taught in grade school about ' the Golden Spike ' that was driven in 1869 to celebrate the completion of America...

A neighbor in this small community came to me last week for minor help with a notice to vacate tenancy, a first step towards pursuing an evi...

In North Carolina, it has long been believed that a group of backcountry Scottish immigrants declared independence from the King of England...

The first chapter of Book IV continues. Yesterday we learned that liberality is more concerned with giving well than with taking; but the o...

I gave up television in 2004, when I realized that I was only using our $80/month cable subscription to watch old cowboy movies on the Weste...

The Triton a-sail. Last week's quick run to the Deep South was occasioned by a chance to observe a demonstration of the Triton autonomou...

Book IV begins with an extremely long chapter that I will break into two parts. It has to do with the first of the 'spending virtues,...

If you're in New Mexico August 22-24 Spoons and a washtub bass Gotta end with an outlaw

This is the final chapter of Book III . Self-indulgence is more like a voluntary state than cowardice. For the former is actuated by pleasur...

 

DOGE has built an automated/augmented intelligence bot with an astonishing goal . The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new artificial intelligen...

Jim Hanson would like to review best practices with close-quarter pistols. Derrick Perry is a Sheepdog He saved lives & did what few are...

This time the word is " mankeeping ," which is I gather women having to care about their partners.  Much of the time, Mr. Lioi sai...

None, apparently . They will tax our goods at 0%, we'll tax theirs at 15%. $600BB in U.S. investments and $750BB in energy purchases, re...

I admit that I had not realized he was still alive ; his work is well-known to me, but all of his famous pieces are from before I was born....

Of the appetites some seem to be common, others to be peculiar to individuals and acquired; e.g. the appetite for food is natural, since eve...