Borepatch

In the year 1000 A.D. an unbiased world observer would never have picked Europe as the region that would dominate the globe.  Probably they ...

The most Bad Ass Indian tribe in the old west was not the Lakota that did in the 7th Cavalry, but rather the Comanche.  S. C. Gwynne tells t...

I was going to post the great Miller Lite commercial with him, but Dwight beat me to it .  I can heartily endorse his book about his basebal...

There's a good (if geeky) read from the UK National Cyber Security Centre on how to prepare your organization for Quantum Computing.  Fr...

This is a Columbus Day post I wrote in 2008, but which seems evergreen.  The words that you will not hear by the Usual Suspects today are th...

She's the best writer I know.  Not sure what more you need for a recommendation. Go read now .

So you used your heater - and didn't even pull the trigger - in a self defense situation.  Now what? A lawyer and shooter explains wha...

I posted this ten years ago, and it's still current.  This is probably the best introduction to computer security for non-technical read...

Listen here . On Saturday at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum I ran across Aaron Elson, who has spent a bunch of time interviewing World War I...

This is a Columbus Day post I wrote in 2008, but which seems evergreen.  You can get Dr. Landes' book on Amazon, no doubt at a deep disc...

Even NPR is noticing that a lot of kids don't need to go to College, and can do very well by not going to College: Like most other Am...

This is a Columbus Day post I wrote in 2008, but which seems evergreen. Obligatory Imperialist Post Because it's  Columbus  Pow...

I like to use the ATM machines that are in the Bank's lobby, because they are more secure.  It's riskier for someone to just walk up...

Brigid is not only my friend and sister-from-another-mister, she's the best writer that I know.  She has a way of crafting sentences tha...

The Czar of Muscovy casts his cold, dread eye on the disaster that is ESPN coverage of the Baseball pennant race: ESPN is the worst; their...

The good news is that I haven't heard of mass attacks (yet) using these attacks.  The bad news is that it typically doesn't take lon...

Brigid's Book Of Barkley appears in the print version of Kirkus Reviews .  Congratulations on the home run, Brigid!

Kirkus Review is, along with the (London) Times Literary Supplement the gold standard for serious authors, and readers who care about serio...

I was going to do some deep thinking last night, but got side tracked.  My sister-from-another-mister  Brigid emailed me a copy of her book...

It's not often that you find a book on an important subject that is written with a light-hearted, breezy, funny prose that keeps you tu...