The beautiful. 

Dillsboro all out for the veterans' parade. Some of the local veterans parading. I was just mentioning the Confederate flag thing and th...

Have a happy one, warriors .  UPDATE: I got the pork butt on before dawn. It smells just like old hickory out there.

I'm going to smoke a pork butt for the Independence Day feast.  I made some Christmas barbecue sauce given the significance of the occa...

At the NY Post today, Eric Metaxas declares the American revolution to have been ' the only one in history that worked .'  That'...

The FBI has made a priority investigation out of the 2020 election there. The article treats it as an open question that might go either wa...

There are many things I really like about 70s culture: Outlaw Country, Shovelhead choppers, proto-Metal and Punk rock, Smokey and the Bandit...

Oklahoma having a good day. 

Today was the day that unconstitutional gun ban was supposed to go into effect in Virginia, except it was slapped with a statewide injunctio...

In a year in which socialist candidates are doing so well, competition for Bad Idea of the Year is fierce! However,  we might have a winner...

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...