Does anyone out there want an exquisite pastel portrait done? Try Barbara Hamilton Kaczmarowska.
Does anyone out there want an exquisite pastel portrait done? Try Barbara Hamilton Kaczmarowska.
Aaaargh. Reckless carbon use on Earth is now having worrying ramifications at the heart of solar system, viz the Sun. Please governments. Tax us higher to pay for all those schemes to deal with these problems, otherwise all is lost. One thing is utterly clear. The Earth is set to […]
Stories of stunning human achievements are always inspiring. But, facile as we usually are, we tend to dwell on ‘immediate’ visible triumphs in eg sport or the arts, and to ignore the mind-boggling successes of engineers and scientists. So have a look at this fine article from 2005 to help […]
What other country in the developed world produces beauty queens who hunt caribou and serve up a terrific moose stew? As an immigrant, I’m not saying I came to the United States purely to meet chicks like that, but it was certainly high on my list of priorities. Who else but Mark Steyn? She sure gets […]
So much for the new online service for speeding admission to the USA. We reached Newark Airport immigration control desks and none of the officers there had heard of it. Having filled in all the forms on the aircraft ‘just in case’ we somehow survived this indignity and made our […]
Back in the West, there is a health and safety policy I have not seen before here at Aquatica, the new water-park next to SeaWorld in Orlando. As one waits in line for a good splashy ride, a tape-recording in a prissy male Australian voice tells us all that: Your […]
When we get all worked up (pr not) about British blunders and hypocrisy, we tend to lose sight of where they fit in to the greater scheme of things. Pointing to others’ even viler behaviour does not legitimise or make right one’s own. But it just is the case that […]
When you interfere with a natural process, there are consequences, not all of them good — and you should be mindful of them. It’s not just fish that end up getting hurt.
It is not obvious to me what is wrong with the argument that says, “The criminals already have guns; gun control disarms the rest of us.” I don’t know how many times I have heard that view sneered at, or laughed at, or pointed to as an infallible marker of […]
Under the UK’s Parliamentary system if an MP dies or steps down during a Parliamentary term a new election in his/her constituency takes place to fill the gap – no ‘appointing’ of new MPs as happens in countries with a party list system. This of course compels the political parties to stay […]
