On Saturday, I rode across Soco Gap between Haywood and Jackson Counties to head down into the Cherokee Boundary Lands. I wanted to visit t...

I saw this post on "X" and wondered if it was being tremendously unfair, so I went to see what else I could find about it. It sou...

I was listening to someone talking about "othering" this morning, and I realized that part of the reason to avoid jargon is to avo...

You can't beat a deal like that. Biker rallies are intellectually diverse. This one place is selling F*CK TRUMP patches right next to F*...

Conan enjoys this much more than I do. I usually start in February, and it takes until summer starts to finish. Cut a fallen tree here and t...

Kind of a catchy song from 1950s honky-tonk. By coincidence I was talking with my wife yesterday on a walk about how she, her first time aw...

In the following article , a basic conflict over the idea of natural law is spelled out by one Catholic priest who is competing with others ...

Wretchard , I mean.  He usually is . He points out that this means that the Chinese Communist Party is actually opposed to all the diversity...

I wrote on this directly in 2015. My thesis at that time contradicts every other philosopher; it is ancient in form, but it disagrees with a...

In the Laws , Plato has his three strangers turn their attention to the matter in Book IX . Plato recommends for theft a proportionate equal...

Having seen what Amazon Prime wanted to do with Tolkien, I don't know if I'm pleased to hear this or not. However, since I subscrib...

There is a standing philosophical debate about exemplary  versus retributive punishments. The sentences handed down yesterday against the AN...

The last post was more than long enough, and attacked the basic problem of 'what is wrong with this coherent argument about fairness?...

AVI has posted an interesting challenge , an article that strikes me as making a coherent but wrong argument; yet saying just exactly why it...

Nobody's thinking about Syria right now, but there is a little complication in US policy there.  Congress is nearing a vote on the Pent...

That's quite a hat .  The article is paywalled, but the photo caption says, "Kefan Wang (4th generation Shaman of Liaoning Province...

Grim got me started listening to Jimmie Rodgers and I've been exploring the early 20th century for other musicians like him. Although th...

1. The King Arthur Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliff The King Arthur Trilogy is a worthy retelling of the Arthurian stories for a younger audien...

Why not?

The late 19th & early 20th century Austrian poet Rilke was recommended to me by a literature professor, so I gave him a try. Here are a...