US to revive prize courts .  Once you have prize courts in place, there’s no reason not to revive letters of marque and reprisal. 

Someday I need to stop coming back to this town. 

I’m starting for the other side of the world this morning. Taipei by Friday — local time. 

A very young Dolly singing in Fountain City, Tennessee. Dolly Parton will be missed here in Appalachia. I don't doubt that such a forw...

In American history, the Comancheros were a group of Europeans who traded with Comancheria , the Comanche Empire , during its period of domi...

Give praise to the day at evening, | to a woman on her pyre, To a weapon which is tried, | to a maid at wed lock, To ice when it is crossed,...

My great-grandmother and her folk were Primitive Baptists, for whom foot-washing was a crucial annual ritual (as it is for the Pope). My mot...

One of my county commissioners is apparently on a mission from God .  Next time I run into that guy I'm going to ask him just what he me...

...you're supposed to bring your own rocks. Arlo and their pickles is, you likely know if you hang around here, a reference to this old ...

I noticed today this small note about a range war written up here in 2024. Charles and Heather Maude, a small, fifth-generation farming an...

A clipping from last weekend’s chile pepper contest.  Sic transit gloria Mundi.

The Economist poses a novel dataset as a partial answer to the question (archive version because of paywall; original is here for subscrib...

A judge rules the 'ghost gun' ban by the Biden administration to be unconstitutional . Most importantly, this governs the constructi...

Long-time Milblogger CDR Salamander points out that this is really an indictment of the schools she attended rather than of her, herself. ...

Last week we were talking about the divergence between polling results and the electoral outcomes in the Hong race. Partly, it turns out, it...

One would not get the impression from the news that we were living through a historic era of peace, nonviolence, and safety. Apparently we a...

Russians have apparently decided  that it's not safe to keep accounts on deposit in the wake of the Kremlin's financial woes. (WPost...

A clever explanation of the odd shape used by the ancients. 

I guess it's hard to get published without claiming that there's some unknown to be solved, or a mystery to be explored, or novel in...

At least initially.   I won.