The next chapter is short and straightforward, and requires little commentary. It's about how to deal with anger in society. The basic s...

This is a titanic section that I will treat in one go, because it belongs together.  To my mind, this is the most misunderstood and importan...

I tried talking to ChatGPT 5 today about the Middle East, and I noticed that it immediately placed Israel/Gaza at the top of its list. It di...

UPDATE: It might be that some of you don't know that Elvis was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Or maybe some of you don't know the song...

She’s actually completely right about this. We can’t allow a secret police to exist unchallenged. The fact that it doesn’t target us as ord...

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...