How far should what people did back in February 1970 fairly be taken into account now? And by whom? Another story from those distant days makes an interesting contrast.
How far should what people did back in February 1970 fairly be taken into account now? And by whom? Another story from those distant days makes an interesting contrast.
This Quote of the Day at the Adam Smith Institute blog caught my eye: We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission … A few years back when […]
Maybe I follow US politics too much. Those who wisely do not might like at least to be aware of one Professor Bill Ayers. As a younger man Bill Ayers had the full 60s’ experience to the point of being an original member of the Weathermen, a group of charmless people dedicated […]
If you have all the high moral authority of being a terrorist group leader, you have the right – nay, the spiritual duty – to question the integrity of others.
An example of utterly wonderful service. My trusted old Leatherman supertool knife which I bought well over a decade ago somehow got itself ‘blocked’ and would not open. These Leathermen are the best knives and utility tools around, by the way. So I looked on the Internet and found that […]
I once had a go flying a British Army Chinook helicopter, near Dubrovnik. This is a serious machine. It weighs some 32,000 pounds without a load. Yet its basic controls are disconcertingly simple. One small tweak on a lever and it jumps off the ground into the air. Pilots who […]
Andrew Kenny bluntly wonders where Barack Obama would fit into South Africa’s racial profiling legislation.
If you have not read it yet, rush out and buy A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe. A big novel in all senses of the word, weighing in at 742 pages in my edition. It is crafted with sizzling style. Try this for syllepsis: "…long legs glistening with youth, lubricity and […]
This nicely-turned essay by David Mamet has attracted quite a lot of attention. It describes him trying to link his changing political beliefs to the way the world appears to be in real life. Never a bad idea?
