An interesting article on how sprawling Texas is adjusting fast and creatively to energy shortages – by keeping well clear of interstate connections and therefore US federal regulations. H/t Instapundit.
An interesting article on how sprawling Texas is adjusting fast and creatively to energy shortages – by keeping well clear of interstate connections and therefore US federal regulations. H/t Instapundit.
One of the typical BBC-style clever retorts to those who say that our language is not declining goes thus: Languages evolve, as we all know. They have to. Duh. English now is far removed from the language of Henry I. If technology and texting and the rest are causing English […]
Off to Paris tomorrow to give a presentation to a distinguished group of people about Diplomacy. Meandering around the Internet for inspiration I started looking at the fine story of one of the greatest ever Ambassadors, Thomas Jefferson, who represented the newly emerging USA in Paris in the years leading […]
Here is a post by Bloggers Circle member Bracknell Blog complaining in not altogether coherent terms about the fact that an England national team World Cup qualifier football match is be available to a wider audience only by a pay-to-view Internet service: So why is this not being reported as […]
Somehow this site has been linked to by Bill Ellsworth’s. Go and look at what happens when you are over-exposed to Hippy Eastern Philosophies. And assorted paradigms. And CD covers. He shares with us this magnificent quote from Richard Fernadez: … the differences between a society which organizes itself around stern […]
President Obama has cancelled a plan to build US anti-missile defence radar facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic. This move has been hailed by Russia’s President Medvedev as a "wise decision". Which, of course, prompts the ignoble thought that if the Russians like it so much, something must be […]
The growth of e-books is rattling publishers: Hardback books could be killed off if Amazon’s e-books and Google’s digital library force publishers to slash prices, Arnaud Nourry, chief executive of French publishing group Hachette, has warned. Mr Nourry said unilateral pricing by Google, Amazon and other e-book retailers such as […]
Think. It as far from here to Sergeant Pepper as it is from him to 1925. Lawks. Getting old. And so it is that I recently have meandered back again to a couple of the records of my, hem, student years. Quadrophenia, by The Who. And (gulp) Tales of Topographic […]
One of the fantastical and perverse features of modern government is its reliance on ‘consultants’. Having created sprawling systems of such obscurity/complexity that they are unable to do anything well, civil servants and Ministers then call in consultants to try to sort things (and themselves) out. The FCO has reeled under the […]
Liam Murray tries to look at healthcase provision according to some basic principles, and is unimpressed with the idea that the state back out: If you can’t afford healthcare then you have no such personal liberty. In a rich, developed country like the US it offends decency for anyone to […]
