Apparently sunset locally to wherever you are begins the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah , followed by Yom Kippur , the day of atonement, wi...

Overnight, Houthi militias crossed to the center of the Bab el-Mandeb strait and took an island in the middle of it. This is a cyberpunk st...

I guess everyone understands by now. 

The judge admonished Long for carrying the gun and told him he has to think before he acts. "Fortunately, you weren't injured, but ...

He was born 9/8/1897, so I'm a day late with this. Here's a few of his less well known songs.

The I-40 saga turns expensive, but they might be avoiding what the British like to call 'a false economy.' "Getting rid of the ...

I guess we'll find out if bounty hunters are better at this than inadequately-trained ICE agents .  In fairness, I'm pretty sure th...

The infamous European  cordon sanitaire may collapse first in Germany  rather than France.  Voters were asked by pollsters on Sunday if the...

If that description doesn't light up your heart, you may not be the right reader for this new book . Some of the logical empiricists def...

I was a little surprised to learn that this young man apparently has no relation to Roy Acuff, the very famous Grand Ole Opry performer (...

Since this just came up recently , the claim caught my eye. I don't know what AI was used in that claim that is going around on social m...

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 ...