By voting Republican.
John Derbyshire is a National Review pro-Israel conservative. So deal with it. He also is closely interested in maths and science issues and their accompanying civilisational aspects. He gets off to a brisk start: … we all do trust science. We trust Bernoulli’s Principle every time we get on a plane; […]
Let’s start at the top, with Climategate. A great mass of original material is hacked or leaked from a key UK Climate Research Unit. Those who want urgent action of different sorts on climate change are exhibiting unease, insisting that it is all a fuss about next to nothing […]
The latest BBRU is hosted by Trixy. She links to Jack of Kent who has examined in some depth a strange case of a man handing over to the police a shotgun he said he had found and then being prosecuted. Having watched various trials as a budding barrister, I […]
I live not too far from Swindon. Its council announced last week that free Wi-Fi broadband, enabled by hundreds of access points in lamp posts, will be made available to all residents. With thousands of computers connected by millions of virtual synapses, might this not be where the first artificial […]
Tim Worstall nails a nice one here. MPs are moaning that the amount of textile waste (ie old clothes) in council tips has shot up. This, they say, shows that we are becoming addicted to wasteful throw-away fashion. Except that it doesn’t. If we recycle lots more glass/paper/plastic/cardboard away from […]
One of the most baffling features of modern Western civilisation – more accurately the UK/US version of it – is the way honesty has been downgraded to something contingent and ‘relative’. This applies particularly in education, where generations of pupils are being insulated against the unbending honesty of the reality […]
Is hosted by Clairwil, coming off the BBRU subs bench and scoring well on links, less well on apostrophe’s. It links to this magnificent piece by Heresy Corner about Winston Churchill’s miserable speech style. And Punkadiddle on a lovely classic book cover (I had it too – not sure where […]
Is here. Including a wearying rant by Penny Red (socialist, feminist, deviant, reprobate, queer, journalist, aspiring author, freelance copywriter and sometime blogger) about women and their unending (it seems) bodily misery. Lighten up, Penny. At least you’re unlikely (for the time being) to get stoned in the UK merely for […]
