I’m going to Tennessee in the morning. Hopefully they don’t burn the place down. 

El Camino SS. That’s a Studebaker, in case you’ve never seen one. Hot rods. One of my favorite aspects of this annual heritage festival is t...

This week is the Mountain Heritage Festival. Tomorrow’s the big day, which I’ve written about before. Tonight there’s a free concert. 

One of the most useful tools of antidemocratic Democratic politics is the consent decree . The way this works is that some state or local p...

A plausible theory; certainly at least part  of the explanation. When an AI system solves a difficult mathematical problem, the usual explan...

The United Nations, generally a useless joke of an organization in practice, has a powerful opening line in its founding document :  WE THE ...

Heavy thunderstorms started here in the middle of the night, and have carried on through the morning. Season changes sometimes have this sor...

Giving an interview to a journalist can ruin your life, but especially if you're some poor delivery driver in China. I assume the journ...

There's a lively comment section down below on AI that deserves a follow-up to draw out some metaphysics. The 20th century thought it wa...

The autumnal equinox will be, locally, a little after sunrise on Tuesday. This is therefore the last weekend of summer. For Tolkien, embedde...

CBS must have decided that “assault weapons” wasn’t working any more, because they’ve come up with another fake name that they claim these ...

The Orthosphere argues that socialism is a system rather than any individual policy, and that both apparent acts of socialism and of author...

pic.twitter.com/4WWfgl8fcP — PsyopAnime (@PsyopAnime) September 16, 2026 I gather the cartoon is making fun of the latest direction of hate ...

Bill Gertz of the Washington Times is forwarding rumors of a serious illness or stroke involving Chairman Xi during his visit to India. No...

Writing on X, entrepreneur Arnaud Bertrand states that China has won the AI race because it has vastly more data centers already than the US...

Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (New York & Toronto: Modern Library Edition, 1999).  Hunter S. Thomp...

One of the longstanding differences between free and Communist societies is this: it's very easy to leave a free society, you can just g...

Like any good mythology , the truths the Conan stories convey hold across many times and places.

The White Duck Taco Shop's flagship location was a Quonset hut located on the French Broad River just a little past its confluence with ...