In which Murff succumbs to the lure of the open water under sail.

In which Murff covers the plausible theory that early hominids came out of the trees in search of nothing less than happy hour. It’s...

After 20 years and $2 trillion, the US is quitting Afghanistan in roughly the same place we found it.

It may have taken France five times to get democracy right, but they sure know their wine.

Democracy sounds great, and works better than anything else we've come up with to run the shop - but it's no autopilot.

Hemingway did drink here... the daiquiri, the legend and Papa being his pedantic self.

For the first time since their civil war, Spain has cancelled the Festival of San Fermin for a second year. To wit...

On the anniversary of Williams Faulkner’s 1961 death, we discuss the hangover. To say the man triumphed over the hangover is overselling...

Ukraine, Russia, a dozen rounds of horillka, and a European solution that we can't quite remember.