Borepatch

Ernest Tomlinson was an English composer active from around 1950.  He was an anachronism in that he wrote music with melody, in great contr...

This is an old, old traditional song of parting, popularized by The Clancy Brothers and often played at both New Year's and funerals.  ...

The Queen Of The World got me a Barnes & Noble gift card, so we went out to an actual bricks-and-mortar bookstore (do they really have t...

The Civil War was not fought over slavery.  This is trivial to demonstrate. Consider the Corwin Amendment : The   Corwin Amendment   is a pr...

I mean, why not?  There's a long American tradition of ignoring treaties with the tribes.  But this time it's playing out differentl...

The Queen Of The World is having a cataract removed.  Unfortunately, then she'll have a clear view of me. Getting old is not for sissies...

God bless us, every one. 

It's Christmas Eve, which calls for the best of traditional Christmas music.  You don't get much more traditional than this.

Michael Buble's version is great, but nothing beats the original.

The stockings are now up, but there are only two.  Wolfgang had a stocking with two feet (he had twice as many feet as we do, right?).  He s...

It's been almost a month since I posted any Blues.  Fixing that now.

Hey, you can trust the Government, right ? All of the big pharmacy chains in the US hand over sensitive medical records to law enforcement w...

Good Lord, it's been a month since the last Dad Joke. Where was the Declaration Of Independence signed?  At the bottom.

Not cool, dude : An Atlanta tech company's former COO has pleaded guilty to a 2018 incident in which he deliberately launched online att...

The mid-20th Century was the high point of the much appreciated and much lamented in its passing "Mid-Brow"* culture: a set of soc...

It is said that Engineering is "Science that works", so we have to relegate "Software Engineering" to the same bucket as...

A classic from the Master.

Thanks for all the great music, Tony.  Rest in peace.

Proceeds from this song go to Folds Of Honor (scholarships for military and first responder's kids) and the Mike Rowe Works Foundation ...

Lawrence has a great analysis . Key bit: By actually applying the Bruen test, and using it to strike down half of the remaining decree, the ...