Given how much suspicion of Israel there is on the Left and the Right today, you'd think this would be comforting . [Probably paywalled;...

From Military.com : Military.com has learned that the Department of Defense, for the first time in almost 10 years, has dramatically reduced...

I imagine that these are familiar to some or all of you, but they're fun nonetheless. Falling Up I tripped on my shoelace And I fell u...

Alexander Muse has been publishing excellent essays this year. On Iran's purported victory lap : [A] closed strait [of Hormuz] is a cho...

Some of us get both the Seax and the Dirk, I would think.  It's sad that there was a murder, but the carrying of a Kirpan is one of the ...

If any of you happen to be gay, allow me to convey that I don't have anything against it; indeed, the longer I live with a woman the mor...

I recommend Alexander Muse's substack. This is a thoughtful article about the very slight impact on a general election of a bitterly co...

For the Sake of a Single Poem, by Rainer Maria Rilke … Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought t...

I own a waterfall. Waterfalls in this part of North Carolina are so commonplace that they didn’t even mention it when we bought the property...

People dig in to these so fast I can’t even get a picture before the biscuits are gone! I hope my grandmother would be proud of them. 

Steven Green doesn't think Big Glenn deserves to be scuttled, but suggests that NASA's SLS probably does. The damage to Amazon from...

My passage through the Tennessee mountains went smoother than that of certain  German prisoners of war . Of course, I know better than to tr...

The only downside to the recent trip to Tennessee was how very hard it is to get there from here and vice versa. We went out by US 64, which...

A small minority of prosecutors in Virginia have stated that they will not prosecute violations of the "facially unconstitutional"...

Amidst ten days of constant rain, a brief break in time for the ceremony.  American Legion Post 104 conducts its annual memorial. 

I've mentioned the public library issues locally before now; it continues to be the flash point driving the culture war in these moun...

Pope Leo announced that the Church and Claude will be working together . 

 

One of the stories of Red America is how our cities leverage their wealth and power to strive against our way of life. Indiana in the 1980s ...

The worst predictions, at least, are being walked back. This is from lefty site Vox :  The world that [doomsday scenario] RCP 8.5 assumed wi...