An infographic  showing the major ways mid-century America got to know their country, and some of what they found there. I've been to ma...

A San Bernardino County train was under fire Monday night after bandits attempted a Wild West-style heist. A group of suspects fired on offi...

Russia's desperation for cash meets China's desperation for oil: in a move unprecedented even in Soviet times, Russia is attempting ...

A new theory about consciousness proposes that the brain doesn't create it . I think this is right; such a theory has been a rare but oc...

The name is a tribute to Waylon Jennings, but the music is their own. More below the fold

I've generally found motorcycle rallies and biker bars to be extremely friendly places, in truth. Still, if you just wandered in and you...

So, to use that awful academic word, I have problematized the US-Japan relationship in my last two anecdote posts. Mainly, I wanted to give ...

In my previous post, I gave what I take to be some common Japanese views of their own Self Defense Forces. In this post I want to give some ...

CDR Salamander objects to a lack of plain speaking on the part of a fellow expert: A very strange and rather short article came out yesterd...

There's a whole article on the bad situation that my Congressional district is in right now.  The issue is simple: the NC Republicans g...

There's a really strong Gospel tradition in country music; Johnny Cash diverted a good part of his career to it, the part no one remembe...

The local tribe nation has a Facebook page associated with cultural education, which is interesting to follow. Learning these words won...

The mayor of Robbinsville, the town closest to the Tail of the Dragon motorcycle road, has been arrested for dealing meth and cocaine. He ha...

My Congressman, Chuck Edwards, I mean. You may recall that I switched parties to vote against him in the primaries this year, sadly to no ef...

Captain Red negotiates a little cannibalism. Almost any comments on any blog or website that are built around the President are likely to be...

Here is an account of why you shouldn’t respect religious prohibitions that aren’t your own.  One of the senior officers in the auditorium ...

As is common among good Southerners, I call my mother "Mama." Here I am listening to my mother tell a story about my cousins visit...

You’ve likely seen this photo of an Idaho citizen engaging a mass shooter at a drive through burger joint. The profile of the firearm sugges...

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...