Why Democrat electoral cheating is no longer okay
To start with, a pre-emptive grovel. I am not a fully fit person just now. I can just about manage photoing photos and posting photos. I can even manage stating my opinions. What I shrink from doing,...
View ArticleLomborg on climate catastrophe
It became clear from the very first paragraphs of False Alarm by Bjorn Lomborg that I was going to have to start revising my prejudices about its author. If, later in this book, Lomborg ever tries to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Frisby dog in 2014 and the Frisby dog now
In February 2014 Dominic Frisby performed with his usual brilliance at my Last Friday of the Month meeting. He attracted a good crowd, and also brought his dog with him. Here’s a photo I took of the...
View ArticleDemocracy is war by other means – so do not trash it and especially not in...
This is all good, but this is particularly good: Before we settled into peaceful, democratic nations, power was decided by Kings, swords, and armies. Power rested with bloody battle and bloody victory....
View ArticleIndia all out 36
Says Michael J, WFF? My sentiments exactly. What I’m finding interesting is how so many closer observers than I of this drama are saying that it wasn’t bad batting, so much as (like this guy says)...
View ArticleBut not such a merry Christmas for her
Most dogs whom we encounter in nice, polite, safe little England are dogs who have bonded with humans, whom the dogs love, unconditionally. But what happens when dogs don’t bond with humans, but only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guido before Guido
In among other more tedious tasks like fixing Power-of-Attorney for my Senior Coordinating Friend, for if I stop functioning properly before all the other tedious tasks are done, I am trying to get my...
View ArticleThe Wodge?
The Wodge. That’s what the Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright is calling 22 Bishopsgate, London’s biggest Big Thing. Will “wodge” catch on? My guess: no. Everyone knows what a gherkin looks like, or a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I think this about sums it up
This: I now swither between thinking all the locking down is better than the alternative, and: not. That the reckoning will be huge, I do not doubt.
View ArticleThe trouble with cultured meat progress is that too much of it is happening...
Maybe media people would make more fuss about the progress of “cultured” meat, the sort of meat that doesn’t involve killing animals, if so much of that progress was not now being made in Israel. My...
View ArticleThe hope of progress
Having recently received a life sentence of quite advanced lung cancer, I find myself noticing reports like this one entitled Ultra-precise lasers remove cancer cells without damaging nearby tissue....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Engine issue
Via Instapundit, this: Police in Broomfield stated on Twitter that they received reports of dropped debris in several neighborhoods … One of the engines on a passing United Airlines plane exploded. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A list of Libertarian Alliance publications by Chris Tame
I’ve been reflecting on the career and achievements of Chris Tame: Those being three more photos of Chris that I recently exhumed from my “filing system”. Below is a list of the pieces of writing by...
View ArticlePatrick and I talk about the current state of libertarianism
I’ve had a busy day doing other things, but last Tuesday, Patrick Crozier and I recorded a conversation about the current state of the libertarian movement, and I can at least today report that Patrick...
View ArticleWhat I now feel able to say about Prince Philip
Nothing at all remarkable, just so you now know. Don’t read this posting for dazzling insights. It’s just that the last couple of days and the next few days are an example of a common thing, which is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lots of people watch the FA Cup Final
Today I watched the FA Cup Final on television, in which Leicester City defeated Chelsea by the momentous margin of one-nil. The one was good, though. But the reason I watched it was because it had a...
View Article“It Charges 60 Times Faster Than Lithium-Ion …”
This sounds promising: The graphene aluminum-ion battery cells from the Brisbane-based Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) are claimed to charge up to 60 times faster than the best lithium-ion cells and...
View ArticleDeveloping countries were able to leapfrog that bottleneck
Mixed metaphor alert! HumanProgress.org as recycled by Jacob Tudor: The landline phone never reached more than 21.4% of the world’s population By adopting cellular technology, developing countries were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
City Big Things photo
I love photos like this, looking up at the City of London’s Big Things, which I found above a piece of “partner content” at the FT: Like I say, I like photoing upwards at the City of London’s Big...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The rest of my friend’s photos of Saturday’s Covid demo in London
Indeed. Here are the rest of those photos, this time all the horizontal ones: I’m still trying to gather my thoughts about this demo, and the many others like it, and about demos generally. When do...
View Article