It is not easy (for me at least) to work out exactly what is said to have happened with the passports used by the group alleged to have murdered Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month. Were they ‘cloned’ or fraudulent? Let’s put possible options on the table. 1 […]
An elegant essay by Theodore Dalrymple on legendary lofty US economist J K Galbraith. Needless to say, what caught my eye was reference to a book JGK wrote in 1958, Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia. As a fine, prosperous East Coast liberal from a democracy, JKG was disinclined to see […]
Time for Climate Warmists to shape up? Jones said he might submit a correction to Nature. But he nonetheless attacked bloggers and other critics for “hijacking the peer-review process… Why don’t they do their own [temperature] reconstructions? If they want to criticise, they should write their own papers,” he said. […]
An attempt by an unkoolass to make Sarah Palin look … plain? Talk about missing the target. Ann Althouse: I can list many other politicians — female and male, Republican and Democrat — who have won favor in the hearts of the people through their looks. One of them is sitting […]
As you can see, time for a New Look. The old one looked too cluttered and (I was assured) too ‘mid-90s’. Plus the colours looked OK in the day but at night became disagreeable, So, on to a simpler, cleaner, brighter future. Thanks to Oxford Webware. And you all need to be […]
More on academic Amy Bishop who ‘allegedly’ starting firing at her colleagues in a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama, killing three: A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children – the youngest a third-grade boy – was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President […]
What’s the difference between the way top leaders deal with other and the beery ruminations of blokes in pubs, banging on about the about the mischief and duplicity of foreigners? Less than you might think!
A fascinating sub-plot (or maybe it IS the plot) in the Greece/Eurozone debacle is the role played by über-bankers Goldman Sachs, as bailed out by the US government. Whose people and former people pop up everywhere. Baseline Scenario is hot on the case. It looks as if Mario Draghi’s hopes of […]
Is hosted by Is there more to life than shoes? (We are never told.) A link to a nice piece by Natalie Bennett about her Grandmother’s thrift and good nature. And some good – but maybe fake – advice to young ladies from the Heresiarch.
Luckily the Technology Liberation Front give us the answer. Pragmatic optimism.
