At least initially.   I won.

When I was a boy, we had a creek behind our house that had some stone cascades in it. I used to walk down with my dog and watch the water sh...

D29 links a story ultimately from ProPublica about a failed Texas ammunition factory. The problem is that it was built with Turkish robots,...

Forbes explores the sudden collapse of Socialist darling Hong. Socialist Francesca Hong was heavily favored to win the Wisconsin Democratic...

Just a small garden this year, but it's happy. These are San Marzano tomatoes , similar to but better than the more locally famous Roma ...

For the first time since 1934, suppressors (usually called 'silencers' in the same way that rifles are increasingly called 'assa...

The Washington Post has what might once have been a blockbuster report . It accuses the President of actually carrying out the plot of a Tom...

It'll be two years in September, and three out of four small businesses that survived at all have not recovered to 80% of prior revenue...

If you are interested in the Russian shadow fleet transiting the Arctic Circle*, the best source for now seems to be the one I started with,...

This graph compares modern city rates of violence with those of periods of Medieval Europe. The Medieval data is from here . I doubt its qua...

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...