Thanks to D29, who forwarded these remarks by Hall favorite Tulsi Gabbard to me . At one point in the remarks she tells a story about a deba...

A link I saw today mirrors a discussion Tom and I were having in a couple of the posts below. We were talking about piracy ; this is about r...

That tracks .  She's an interesting historian our of the University of Chicago, with books on Viking mythology including a series on Rag...

In conversation with AVI's thoughts on misinterpretations in the history of heredity where he brings up the natural philosopher, astrol...

Someone admitted this woman to the clergy . Not sure whose. She’s very earnest; she has an argument, even. 

I admit that it took me a while to get into this article because of some of the rhetoric, which reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's decla...

A genuine step forward to try to overturn unconstitutional state laws -- even ones that have been allowed to persist for decades .  The Just...

The MIT Press Reader has a story today about how we learned that the NSA had begun spying on Americans in the wake of the Patriot Act. Mos...

Clever . It reminds me of what the cyberpunk novels called 'skillsofts,' except you don't have to jack anything into your head; ...

“Yuan” isn’t actually the name of the Chinese currency; it is called the Renminbi (人民币), or “People’s Currency.” “Yuan” is what is called a...

In the comments to a post at AVI's that began with an interesting character, I noted that pirates were pretty common among the English ...

Megan McArdle proposes what she clearly intends as 'a modest proposal' on firearms ; but she's quite right. Maybe we’re looking ...

A new report argues that our popular understanding of Iran’s mid-20th century history is almost completely wrong . 

A curious decision by the local Jackson County Chamber of Commerce as to what they wanted to highlight about their community, but who am I t...

Reliable sources are reporting the death of Outlaw Country legend David Allan Coe.  He was one of the last of the greats, and a true Outlaw;...

 With the Supreme Court's solid ruling in Louisiana v Calais et al. , next up, I say, is partisan gerrymandering, gerrymandering by poli...

Willie Nelson is 93 today. 

Coffee and Covid notes a disturbing pattern in these assassination attempts. (H/t D29 ). Taken together, the three attempts highlight a par...

In a comment to a post below, Tom was asking if anyone is still looking for common ground. The President of Dartmouth is .  When an encampme...