Wrinkled Weasel has been trying to work out where the true loyalties of Sir Gus O’Donnell lie as between former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. And he thinks he has the answer: O’Donnell … no longer wishes to invest emotional energy in protecting a tyrant […]
Here is a noteworthy look by Farhad Manjoo over at Slate about the deeper significance of AOL and Huffpo joining forces. He has some fascinating things to say about Search Engine Optimization, ie the way Google and the other web search algorithms currently set about their business (and how business […]
A sign on a run-down barn spotted on my morning dog-walk in deepest Oxfordshire: G R People throwing stones at telegraphs will be prosecuted
Last year I wrote about Timothy Snyder’s monumental Bloodlands, the history of the carnage wreaked across central Europe by the C20’s two twin collectivist totalitarianisms, Communism and Nazism. I warned against Left collectivist apologists for Stalin such as Slavoj Zizek: We dare not underestimate the danger which people like Zizek represent. […]
Feeling a bit … heavy after all that Christmas stuffing? A question: do we get fatter because we ‘overeat’? Is the statement "I took in too many calories and so I got fatter" logically meaningful? Or is it just vacuous logic, a statement which is true but says nothing of […]
I previously have linked to the astounding Iowahawk, whose devasting demolitions of the pompous and fat-headed are a modern wonder of civilisation. But at last he wildly misses the mark, in his new piece lauding the virtues of his new red jump-suit: Something about being clad in a jumpsuit gives a man renewed […]
Men! Need something useful for your beloved (assuming she’s female)? Try these for size. I was going to say that they’re a handy Christmas stocking filler, but then it’s not the stocking they, er, fill. Or maybe it’s safer to go for ON/Off mode and get these too. Capitalism. So […]
My Physics question re cylinders sliding/rolling down an icy slope generated some very smart answers. So do try this other one as posed to would-be Physics undergraduates: Two stationary cars, A and B. Car A has inside it a balloon full of air on a string attached to the inside […]
Mulling over diplomats in danger has jogged my memory of a ghastly diplomatic hunting accident in Tito-era Yugoslavia. In those innocent times (1970s) the communist regime in Belgrade would organise hunting expeditions for the Diplomatic Corps to echo Tito’s own love of killing animals. On one such hunt one Ambassador blasted […]
