Net Neutrality Nixed: Why John Oliver is Wrong
Published on 19 May 2017 Progressives are freaking out now that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is beginning the repeal of Net Neutrality regulations, which give the government the right...
View ArticleQotD: Being a cop is dangerous … but not as dangerous as you’d think
It is less dangerous than being a cabbie, yet every time a cab driver dies in a car accident I’m not forced to listen to hour after endless hour about how that noble cabbie died so that the good people...
View ArticleTank Chats #9 Whippet – Medium A
Published on 31 Aug 2015 The ninth in a series of short films about some of the vehicles in our collection presented by The Tank Museum’s historian David Fletcher MBE. While the heavy tanks were...
View Article“The conceptual penis as a social construct”
Getting a paper published is one of the regular measurements of academic life — usually expressed as “publish or perish” — so getting your latest work into print is a high priority for almost all...
View ArticleWhat Fans Never Knew About Weird Al Yankovic
Published on 19 May 2017 With his seemingly endless optimism and light-hearted satire, Weird Al Yankovic has a power that goes beyond innovative lyrics and catchy tunes: he makes people happy. But...
View ArticleThe Hero Of Tannenberg – Paul von Hindenburg I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1?
Published on 20 May 2017 Paul von Hindenburg’s military career was already over when World War 1 broke out. He fought in legendary German battles like Königgrätz [and] Sedan and now was retired. But...
View ArticleQotD: The nanny state’s ever-expanding reach
The Royal Society for Public Health is suggesting that unusual, unhealthy or minority pursuits should be criminalised in order to set a good example to others. They want people to be arrested, fined...
View ArticleNed Kelly – V: The Iron Outlaw – Extra History
Published on Apr 15, 2017 Ned Kelly sought revenge against the police. He built plate armor and planned to derail their train so he could kill them, but his plan was betrayed and police surrounded him...
View ArticleWhy Do We Have Grass Lawns
Published on 17 Apr 2017 In this video: Maintaining the perfect lawn takes a lot of work. There’s mowing, fertilizing, aerating, and watering. Having a trimmed green field leading up to your front...
View ArticleWho’s afraid of Mrs. Grundy?
In my family, the name “Mrs. Grundy” was used to describe someone of rigidly conformative taste and judgement (and keenly censorious bent). I’d always assumed it was just a family notion or perhaps a...
View ArticleQotD: The dangers of career “dualization”
This concept [of dualization] applies much more broadly than just drugs and colleges. I sometimes compare my own career path, medicine, to that of my friends in computer programming. Medicine is very...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons the Byzantine Empire Was Among the Most Successful in History
Published on 2 May 2017 You’d see a lot of changes when looking at a map of present day Europe and comparing it to a 30 year old one. Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine and the Baltic States were all part of...
View ArticleRemembering the Six-Day War
With the 50th anniversary coming up in a few weeks, Jerrold L. Sobel provides a retrospective on the Arab-Israeli war of 1967: For those of us alive during those daunting days in May 1967 leading up to...
View ArticleVenezuela’s American “useful idiots”
Marian L. Tupy on the American apologists for the ongoing economic and humanitarian disaster unfolding in Venezuela, thanks to that country’s embrace of socialism: … all socialist countries eventually...
View ArticleThe Ally From The Far East – Japan in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
Published on 22 May 2017 Japan’s participation in World War 1 is an often overlooked part of their history – even in Japan itself. Their service as one of the members of the Entente marked the climax...
View ArticleQotD: The evil of political correctness
PC [political correctness] represents, in essence, the institutionalisation of dishonesty, of deception, where people are given carte blanche to behave in an immoral way — ‘erect those fences, release...
View ArticleVintage Style Storage Boxes w/ Splines
Published on 7 Dec 2015 I wanted to make really nice storage boxes to organize my art supplies so I went with cedar and maple splines. Related posts: French cleat follow-up Why some vintage dates...
View Article“I don’t know if Lou would be cracking up about this or crying because it’s...
Reactions to the University of Guelph student association’s characterizing Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” as transphobic: Friends of the late Lou Reed responded on Saturday with disbelief to a...
View ArticleESR presents Open Adventure
Eric S. Raymond recently was entrusted with the original code for ADVENT, and he’s put it up on gitlab for anyone to access: Colossal Cave Adventure was the origin of many things; the text adventure...
View ArticleWill it be more Mourning Sickness, or will it be anger this time?
Brendan O’Neill on the reactions to the Manchester bomb attack on Monday after a pop concert: After the terror, the platitudes. And the hashtags. And the candlelit vigils. And they always have the same...
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