Strict red chili. All these recent comments about chili had me wanting some. This is strict Texas Red, made with dried chilies — anchos and ...

We've had a lot of philosophy lately, so I'll keep this one very short. There is a view called dialetheism  that some contradictions...

Adeste fideles with Alison Krauss: Sherburne (i.e., "While Shepherds watched their flocks by night." Another Alison Krauss, ...

The DC pipe-bomb case is in the news due to a surprise arrest having been made after many years now of nothing at all. The charging document...

Rahmanullah Lakanwal is the name of the Afghan who murdered a National Guardsman -- a female, actually, Specialist Sarah Beckstrom -- and tr...

This young lady is a hunter, and if you kill and clean your deer you can cook it however you want. She’s also from Tennessee, as her accent...

Forty percent of Stanford students are classified as having a disability; over half of liberal white women under 30 have a diagnosed mental...

“The average squatter,” says James Jacobs, “has no melee experience.” No familiarity with katana swords or other bladed weaponry. No trainin...

In a review of a book I won't read by an author I don't care about, a great opening paragraph . I am told that writers used to be in...

In 1967, Michael Crichton wrote a thriller about a microbe of sorts that arrived on Earth via a meteor strike and resisted efforts to kill o...

I thought of that old ad while looking through the Times this morning: in a story about the 50 best clothing stores in America, there were t...

You'd never know it from my sad music choices today, but I'm over-the-moon happy with the progress in my neighbor's custody case...

My wife was listening to this song, which I'd never heard before, while working in her art studio on her day off.  I stood there listeni...

I enjoy reading Reason magazine, agreeing or disagreeing with them almost half of the time each. Sometimes even when I'm in robust agree...

For those of you still interested in further reading (if any!), here is a paper arguing that virtue ethics may in fact be impossible and yet...

Now you know what has to be done.  But here, then, also this: And, therefore, one more. 

My wife appealed for a non-turkey feast this year, and of course I am usually easy for her to convince. We did Roast Beast instead, and in f...