All is green and mighty atop the world in high summer.  Overlooking Courthouse Valley. Blackberries are ripe up here. I leave most of them f...

In the ongoing trainwreck that is the Maine Senate race, the new candidate has a slight irregularity in his family tree. I never want to h...

From Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership , trans. Thomas Cleary (Boston & London: Shambala Books, 1993), 52-3: Lesson 42. Huanglong said ...

The hatred of one's origin ends up being a damaging hatred of the self; Grim's Hall has long argued that some sort of patriotic forg...

One argument being fielded in the circuit split driving the upcoming landmark SCOTUS case on the Second Amendment is a historical examinatio...

Pretty wild night of storms with tornadoes and hail, but all is well here. Up on the Tail of the Dragon they got it in the teeth it sounds l...

An article distinguishes between two sorts of jobs with barnyard epithets . One sort is wearying and spiritually deadening; the other, most...

The Clinton faction dominated the Democratic Party during the 1990s, while Bill Clinton enjoyed the powers of the presidency (and boy, did h...

One of the longstanding views of this space is that Robert E. Howard's view of history was closer to right than otherwise: civilization...

Asheville has had three large-scale shootings in rapid succession, and it's probably not going to get better because the police chief wo...

Dad29 is asking about whether exorcists should be featured prominently; he thinks so . In addition to his argument, there's another angl...

I guess my memory is better than that. 

Nobody seems to know if this is real or parody; I've seen it cited on both kinds of pages lately.  As a longtime student of the Riddle o...

I just did a video/music post, but what the hell, let's have two of them. This reminds me of an older song.

Since I was doing a Paint Your Wagon clip recently, here are a couple more. Sadly, the frontier is closed for the moment. Certain motorcycle...

Even if you are inclined to take psychological therapy seriously -- especially if you are, I suppose -- you should be mindful of the dangers...

Via Hot Air , a plea from a defender of Palestinian Christian communities .  [A] number of... Palestinian Christian leaders assured me that ...

The vote was last night; on consideration, they decided not to allow community meetings in the Cashiers community room either. Only official...

Troy Jackson, a powerful Maine legislator now running for Senate , once angrily threw a water bottle in a meeting after he couldn’t persuad...

When you say " up to five cups of coffee ," do you mean a measuring cup, or my cup?