I’m posting it here, because I have not done any fact-checking, but the the premise behind this book is shocking and intriguing. It is amazing what things a war far away can be used to justify. During World War I, 30,000 American women were rounded up, and half of them were detained, often for months, [...]
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Here’s something intriguing: Lieutenant Walter Haut, the public relations officer at the time of a famous crash of a UFO or weather balloon (depending on whether you are a ‘true believer’ or whatever non-conspiracy-theorists are), has released a posthumous affidavit offering aid and comfort to the UFO hunters. A wicked sense of humour, a whistle-blower, [...]
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For a little over an hour today, the United Kingdom was governed by Her Majesty and the Civil Service. I think it went very smoothly indeed. I hear from the Today Programme that President Bush thinks that History will judge Blair kindly. Well it is possible, I suppose. Though I know some of the people [...]
If you watch one video this mont hmake sure it is this lecture on the difference between the Western and Third World. Everything you know is wrong.
This tirade caught my eye. I sympathise with the writer. He needed a better editor (one who didn’t give him such an awful headline), and isn’t really a patch on Clarkson when it comes to writing over-reactionary prose. But there are numerous choice sentences: If we recreate the Dark Ages in the 21st century, it [...]
I’m indebted to ALB for pointing me to the Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud.
“The Internet” went mad yesterday when it thought that Sheryl Crow had suggested a limit on the use of toilet paper. I feel justified in saying “the internet” when even the BBC reports such a silly story. I never thought that the original blog (or is that “bog”?) post sounded entirely serious. There are several [...]
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Testimony before Congress here. Makes a good case.
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I was very impressed to read about this piece of equipment for bomb trainers. The CCF at school had a navigation training aid – where they had got it from, I’ll never know – that worked on similar principles: lots of mechanical gears and a model cockpit that moved in response to pilot instructions and [...]
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Some in Arizona would like to ban Academics from commenting on the political process: The bill, whose chief sponsor is the Republican majority leader in the Senate, would ban professors at public colleges and universities, while working, from: Endorsing, supporting or opposing any candidate for local, state or national office. Endorsing, supporting or opposing any [...]
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