Grim's Hall

I guess everyone understands by now.

The judge admonished Long for carrying the gun and told him he has to think before he acts.

He was born 9/8/1897, so I'm a day late with this.

The I-40 saga turns expensive, but they might be avoiding what the British like to call 'a false economy.'

I guess we'll find out if bounty hunters are better at this than inadequately-trained ICE agents.

The infamous European cordon sanitaire may collapse first in Germany rather than France.

If that description doesn't light up your heart, you may not be the right reader for this new book.

I was a little surprised to learn that this young man apparently has no relation to Roy Acuff, the very famous Grand Ole Opry performer ("For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God").

Since this just came up recently, the claim caught my eye.

From Mount Pisgah, NC.

In ancient Rome, the father who headed a household had extreme power over it -- a genuine patriarchy led by a patriarch, or in Latin, paterfamilias.

A new truck-driving song, which is a genre we occasionally like to host around here.

South Park anticipated, as they occasionally do, this line of retreat being posed by a Georgia police department that shot a baby donkey in its own field.

Blogger comments seem to be down, both here and at other Blogger-hosted sites I visit.

Tom Tugendhat is the new Shadow Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom; I met him on the Taiwan trip because he happened to be there too.

It is unsurprising to see disparaging remarks about the late Gloria Steinem on the political right, nor especially the political wing with Christian ideas about abortion's immorality.

Louisiana being itself, the judge in the state-level case is reportedly a season-ticket holder for LSU football, who appears here with the LSU coach giving the LSU football hand sign; the lawyer representing LSU had endorsed the judge's wife in her electi…

My last flight has landed at Asheville.

The Rev.

I did hear a David Allan Coe song in a bar in Taipei, but this still feels more like home.

Wendell Berry passed away yesterday.

Downtown, with Taipei 101 on the skyline Closer to 101.

A lot of American skyscrapers don’t have a 13th floor, in the sense of a floor with that designation, because the number was thought to be bad luck.

Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett Dolly Parton giving an impromptu performance in Paídi Ó Sé's Pub (I've started this video just a bit before she starts singing, skipping over several minutes of people milling about, a t-shirt being given, mic testing and so…

All day exercises from before dawn until well into the dark today.