Rocket City is a fun town.  It has to be, I gather, because the space industry is going gangbusters and needs people to want to move to Alab...

This was taken at the remnants of the site of the 1996 Olympic Games’ whitewater events. Those Games were mainly held in Atlanta, but there’...

Had some business in Huntsville today, so I rode down yesterday.  Boyd Gap, on the Tennessee side. The TVA made many lakes; this one floods ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) did helpful service many years ago by taking on the KKK; we're better off without that latter org...

From the second half of the speech , the critique of Progressivism.  As we meet today, it is unclear whether these principles will endure. A...

We live in an online world governed by algorithms. One of them has learned that I like and will reliably watch 70s-themed videos of guys rid...

Updated below, but here at last is a transcript of the speech Justice Thomas gave at UT Austin. Some highlights from the first half only: I...

Raven reminds us in the comments below that we ought to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord . On April...

The New York Times caught my eye with a story about a new study of sunken pirate treasure . Even here, though, they can't play it straig...

A lawyer who posts on X as "Shipwrecked Crew" represented a number of J6 defendants when scarcely any other lawyers would. He got ...

For the most part the preference has shifted to “Native American Tribe Nations,” but the local community still calls itself the Eastern Band...

Yesterday and today in Waynesville, a charming festival.  The bandstand, with mountain music all day. Another musical circle. Note the belt-...

On the hurdy-gurdy. 

Not that far  from here. 

In the lexicon of American strategic communications, 'propaganda' is defined as "enemy action to..." etc . As a result, Am...

The FPC is assisting a resident of Savannah, Georgia who is trying to get the city's restrictions on transporting firearms lifted. I thi...

The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn. All sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain King's return! His crown ...

I usually prefer transcripts, but for reasons that might be obvious the media has not elected to provide a transcript of this speech that I ...

While looking for one of Abbey's aphorisms yesterday, I discovered instead his Master of Arts' thesis . Like a good MA thesis it has...