A bit north of Beech Gap, NC 215.

The autumn color is creeping in, but the days are warm and delightful (when there isn't a hurricane). For the next little while, things ...

As I was telling Mr. Hines in the comments below, there's a bit left but so far we seem to have gotten down easy. All the same I believe...

I've been through some several hurricanes in my life but none like Helene two years ago. Hopefully this one won't go too badly; we a...

I had a brief flashback to this old commercial when I saw this from the NYT today for a slow-cooker chili recipe . Now you can make chili in...

I'm not going to join in the Cornell festival of blame , about which I know nothing that is not in the newspaper. However, I was reminde...

I might share a couple of my opinions with you; but I'm not going to share them because I think they're smart, I'm going to shar...

Reason magazine notes that women are better-armed than ever . American women, anyway -- but without much division other than that. They add ...

By the ~25m mark , Fr. Ripperger is onto a topic he is ascribing to sophistry where he actually disagrees with Aristotle completely. This is...

What Fr. Ripperger raises first is the use of emotion in place of argument. By invoking emotional activity, as he notes, those attempting to...

We begin to find a criticism of sophistry in Plato, but much of it is delivered by Socrates in his arguments with the famous Sophists. In th...

Now let us take up from the beginning the question, what the accusation is from which the false prejudice against me has arisen, in which Me...

Dad29 sent me this lecture by a Catholic Priest, Fr. Chad Ripperger, on the use of sophistry in political argument. The good father rather ...

In a meditation on what he describes as a "long-ago" post -- he means 2016 -- JM Smith of the Orthosphere discusses the importanc...

I am a free speech absolutist, as I generally am about basic rights: 1A or 2A or 4A, all of them all the way. However, the government is not...

For the first time in 200 years(!), Tennessee has tried to execute a woman. They failed . Pike herself wanted other options. Through her at...

Ronald Reagan famously declared that 'freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.' Christianity might be luckier: it ...

The headline finding : more Republican young men blame women for their problems than Democratic young men. Among Republican young men, it...

Tennessee wasn’t entirely burned down anyway.  UPDATE: This fellow came to burn a little more of it. I don’t know who he is, although he des...

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