QotD: Politics as an auto-immune condition
From living with eczema, which is a chronic auto-immune disorder, I can tell you that it much resembles the way we stumbled through from the forties (perhaps earlier. But in the forties, Heinlein...
View Article11 Things to see in Athens
Published on 5 Mar 2017 On February i got a few days away to relax from everything. I left you with some automatic videos, so you wouldn’t be without new documentaries and i went on holiday to Athens,...
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The Virtual Lorenz machine
At The Register, Gareth Corfield discusses the new virtual coding device simulating the WW2 German Lorenz cipher machine: The National Museum of Computing has put an emulation of an “unbreakable”...
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Terry Teachout remembers Dragnet
I vaguely remember watching Dragnet on TV, but the version I watched is apparently just a pale imitation of the original series: If you’re fifty or older, you won’t need to be told the source of these...
View ArticleHow service companies might respond to a mandated increase in the minimum wage
At Coyote Blog, Warren Meyer discusses how real world service companies that employ a lot of minimum wage workers are likely to respond when the minimum wage is raised: When I discuss this with folks,...
View ArticleFreaky Friday Politics: Republicans And Democrats Keep Switching Positions
Published on 15 May 2017 Democrats and Republicans are pivoting on issues faster than a bipolar swing dancer on a merry-go-round. Republicans are now big government protectionists. Democrats support...
View ArticleExploring Fort Douaumont With The VERDUN Developers I THE GREAT WAR Special
Published on 15 May 2017 Join our Live Stream with the Developers: http://twitch.com/tgw_series Check out Verdun: http://www.verdungame.com/ We went to the Verdun area in France this winter and...
View ArticleQotD: Britain’s post-Brexit access to the single market
You see, they think they are granting us a privilege by allowing us to sell them things. This is ludicrous of course, it is imports which make us richer, not exports. But let us humour their delusion...
View ArticleThe Only 3 Sandpapers You Really Need | SANDING BASICS
Published on 20 May 2016 Sanding can be time-consuming, tedious and one of the dustiest, messiest, most boring tasks in woodworking. But it’s also something that you’ll have to do in just about every...
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Sid Meier interview
Last week, Chris Suellentrop talked to the legendary Sid Meier about the Civilization series and other games: The first Civilization was released more than a quarter-century ago in 1991, after being...
View ArticleNASA swings for the Moon … and misses
Robert Zubrin is not a fan of NASA’s recent announcement of a planned lunar orbital station as its next major goal, calling it “NASA’s worst plan yet”: At the recent Space Foundation conference held in...
View ArticleThe amazing luck of Il Donalduce
For all the things that Donald Trump does wrong (and you can just reference the headlines of any newspaper or mainstream web site for a long list), he had one thing going for him: the fact that his...
View ArticleQotD: The state as “hero”
Ever since Hegel or maybe Plato, statists have been telling a story about government in which government itself is the hero in an epic struggle. At least for Hegel, the state was the mechanism by which...
View ArticleThe Avengers On Location (1966)
Published on 13 Apr 2014 Beaulieu, Hampshire. At Lord Montagu’s Motor Museum we see the filming of the ‘tag’ pieces for episodes of The Avengers television series, where Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee...
View ArticleIf you subsidize art, you’ll get more [bad] art
I missed this when it got posted initially … Theodore Dalrymple on an Irish government initiative to actually audit the art they’re busy subsidizing: Like most governments these days, the Irish...
View ArticleWorld of Warships – HMS Hood
Published on 17 May 2017 Look up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No don’t be silly, it’s HMS Hood. Bugger off with your Superman jokes, Jingles. Related posts: World of Warships – HMS...
View ArticleYou Can’t Trust Employment Statistics
Published on 17 May 2017 There is no truly good way to measure unemployment, which makes it pretty easy for successive administrations to claim that unemployment is consistently improving. But when we...
View ArticleQotD: Outpatient psychiatry
Now I am halfway done with my residency. I will be switching to outpatient work. Everyone who sees me will be there because they want to see me, or at worst because their...
View ArticleDiana Rigg on Farts, Knickers, Breast Size and Stage Nudity
Published on 6 Nov 2015 Portions of a fun interview with Mr. Cavett (America’s best interviewer) from years gone by. Related posts: Escaped Colombian convict gets sex change to avoid recapture The...
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Marijuana use promotes incoherence … on the part of non-users
Chris Selley rounds up some of the less-than-realistic concerns of the anti-legalization folks: The move toward marijuana legalization is … still not as coherent as it could be, let’s say. The Liberal...
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