…and burn the corks .  She’s fun. Good Tolkien music, and a new baby. 

The original is a better version, metaphysical in its insight. This one isn’t bad.  I find my commitments to anarchy, Stoicism and outlawry ...

Speaking of Medieval manuscripts, I've been looking into one recently from the early Viking age: the anonymous  Annales Bertiniani , wri...

  Thomas Aquinas' ST I-II A neat collection of six hundred medieval manuscripts from Germany is now online. The German 'are  you hu...

Idaho is projected to choose the Winchester '73 as its official state gun. That was the right decision, if it comes to pass. There were...

Apparently we have reached the point at which one side in the Polish coup/civil war/constitutional crisis says, "If you see German sol...

It's a good story. Not really what I expected from Al Stewart.

The last page of William Gibson's early Cyberpunk novel Neuromancer has this very exchange, once a true AI is born from the parts of two...

My mother, a career educator, has become one of those elderly Facebook ladies who posts what they take to be well-meaning things that would ...

What a beautiful October we have had this year. 

Open this one in a new window so you can see the ranks of mountains in the distance. The Smoky Mountains' leaves emit volatile compound...

Although no government has been formed yet -- parliamentary negotiations can take a long time -- the Serbian 'student-led' movement ...

It’s high color here now.  Just the driveway, but it’s pretty! This is that Wolf Creek I mentioned the other day, way up above the loading l...

It's been about three years since I posted this , and once again we have an uptick in anonymous comments, so I'm posting it again. N...

 donkey's mistake left 51 dead According to foreign media, worshippers inside a mosque in #Afghanistan were performing their prayers whe...

The Pope says you don’t have to go to Mass anymore because any sort of good in your culture will suffice. At least I think that’s what this...

Yeah, except for that!

Bill Maher has a segment this week suggesting that young people are turning towards socialism because they are jealous of the socialism thei...

Readers know that I have a fairly high opinion of treason. We celebrate it every year around here on the 4th of July. A great deal of posit...