Borepatch

As background, I've posted several times on the Herculaneum scrolls, here here and here .  That last link in particular is a fairly pa...

This is from his last album (#30!) which came out 3 years ago.  It (the album) debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200, making this his twelfth t...

I like the cut of this fellow's jib . If you do too, then forward this on in whatever social media platform you like - let's make so...

Ironically, it's one that rejects Plato.  John Michael Greer (who formerly blogged as the Archdruid) has a brilliant post that masterfu...

Aesop ponders death, what it looks like from the trenches of the Emergency Room : Unless you buy it after an IED explosion, or going out l...

You meet different sorts of people who advocate for gun control.  Some of them are hard core control freaks who just want to crush flyover c...

Interesting : General Lundendorff had absorbed (even more than Kaiser Wilhelm II had) the moral relativism and historicism that had become...

Back before it was shilling for Big Business.  Nick Gillespie pens a transparent apologia for illegal immigration : New MassTLC study ric...

I run libertarian without being a Libertarian .  This on tariffs seems exactly right, and so gets the QoTD : A friend sent  a link to a l...

So pathetic that Piers Morgan is slamming them : To the winner of a US presidential election goes all the spoils of being the most powerf...

To all of today's Special Snowflakes:

Heh: A runaway trolley is about to kill philosophy professors who invent trolley problems. Will you divert it? pic.twitter.com/mlfi0mydl...

Interesting : I think conservatives have long been overly trusting of corporate and social power, usually assuming we'd be in control ...

How do you defeat terrorism?  Don't be terrorized. - Salman Rushdie I'd think he'd know something of this.  Think on this ...

Jerry Pournelle came up with a quite interesting replacement for the old political "left" vs. "right", one that is both ...

... every man is an island. It is a truth that often the tolling of a silence reveals even more vividly than the tolling of a bell. We s...

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. - Baruch Spinoza, a totally badass philosopher

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A para...