Common Sense Soapbox #1: Fake News is Old News
Published on 18 May 2017 The term “Fake News” gets thrown around all the time, but what is it? Sometimes it’s just a phrase people use to to discredit information or sources they don’t like. But there...
View Article“Everything is a potentially impeachable offence or an indication that Trump...
Jay Currie says that the ongoing epidemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome is worse than the 2001-2009 Bush Derangement Syndrome outbreak or even the 1969-1974 media demonization of Richard Nixon: There...
View ArticleTenth Battle of The Isonzo River – Trotsky Arrives in Petrograd I THE GREAT...
Published on 18 May 2017 The Italian Front has been quiet over the winter and while the Austrians used the time to improve their defences, the Italian Army prepared another offensive near the Isonzo...
View ArticleQotD: Speaking (actual) truth to (actual) power
Nobody should want journalists ever to fear attacking the behavior of the U.S. military when they have actual evidence that it is wrong. Militaries are dangerous and terrible things, and a free press...
View ArticleTop 10 ugliest Warships (Pre 1930’s)
Published on 31 Jul 2015 WARNING! Ugly lives here! My Top 10 ugliest warships (Pre 1930’s) This video showcases some of the ugliest warships ever made. From a sunken barn with a gun mounted on top, to...
View Article“Trump has always said the kinds of things that most of us learn to think the...
Megan McArdle on the calls to impeach or otherwise depose Il Donalduce (soft coup, anyone?): Trump has always said the kinds of things that most of us learn to think the better of around our freshman...
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On board The Canadian
The Toronto Star‘s Jennifer Bain takes a trip on VIA Rail’s premier passenger train from Toronto to Vancouver: VIA dome observation car, 2007. Photo by Savannah Grandfather (Wikimedia) ABOARD THE...
View ArticleNet 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...
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