From Mount Pisgah, NC. Homemade ice cream at the Harley shop’s Labor Day weekend party.  UPDATE: I love American biker culture. I just got c...

In ancient Rome, the father who headed a household had extreme power over it -- a genuine patriarchy led by a patriarch, or in Latin, paterf...

A new truck-driving song, which is a genre we occasionally like to host around here. 

South Park anticipated, as they occasionally do, this line of retreat being posed by a Georgia police department that shot a baby donkey in...

Blogger comments seem to be down, both here and at other Blogger-hosted sites I visit. This is a Google problem, not a local problem that I ...

Tom Tugendhat is the new Shadow Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom; I met him on the Taiwan trip because he happened to be there too. C...

It is unsurprising to see disparaging remarks about the late Gloria Steinem on the political right, nor especially the political wing with C...

Louisiana being itself, the judge in the state-level case is reportedly a season-ticket holder for LSU football, who appears here with the L...

My last flight has landed at Asheville. No more flying for a while! I’ve crossed the international date line twice in a week and spent long ...

The Rev. Dr. Malcolm Guite has just published the first volume of an "Arthuriad," a projected 4-volume ballad that retells the Ar...

I did hear a David Allan Coe song in a bar in Taipei, but this still feels more like home. I won’t actually be home until late tomorrow nigh...

Wendell Berry passed away yesterday . Some advice he gave to himself, but which seems to profit others as well: How to Be a Poet (To remin...

Downtown, with Taipei 101 on the skyline Closer to 101. An unexpected angel. It’s mostly Buddhist here; I saw many Buddhist monks and a few ...

A lot of American skyscrapers don’t have a 13th floor, in the sense of a floor with that designation, because the number was thought to be b...

Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett Dolly Parton giving an impromptu performance in Paídi Ó Sé's Pub (I've started this video just a bit ...

All day exercises from before dawn until well into the dark today. Tomorrow we resume early again, but will end a little earlier. Perhaps I’...

This one is a waiter who brings your dinner from the kitchen to your table. It is very polite about not bumping into people; they seemed to ...

For some reason my 10-year-old niece in Idaho had strong opinions about the superiority of 7-Elevens in Taiwan. I went by one to get picture...

Good academic research .