They had an actual steam engine today.  I don’t know how much of the work of pulling the train it was doing. At the end of the train were tw...

I think the Farewell Address is still commonly read, or was when I was a boy in school. Less commonly read are Jefferson's letters , whi...

I brought up the topic of Washington's opinion of parties in the comments recently in remarks on our current problems and there were qui...

Because it was everywhere, I imagine everyone saw the video of one of the Third Infantry Regiment sentinels reprimanding what turned out to ...

It's been interesting watching the longer-term fallout of the shift of the Supreme Court to a conservative majority. Obviously the earli...

This time I do know that several of you are in the audience, so I will wish you each a happy day. Feel free to tell stories in the comments ...

I don't fully understand the logic in going after SECDEF Hegseth when literally all of these articles of impeachment are more obviously...

We used to have several Marines in the audience. I'm not sure that we still do. If any of you are out there reading this today, however,...

Mood Music Stan Rogers gives us a good example of Stoicism ... ... and a bad example of Stoicism.

I recently decided to read Grim's commentary on Epictetus's Enchiridion . I was quite busy with other things when he went through it...

It would be pointless to say this on social media, where tempers are running too high for comprehension. I'll say it here instead.  I...

…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...