West Germans followed East German jokes to try to assess the popular mood under Communism, says Spiegel Online. Such as: What if the desert were communist? Nothing would happen. Then there’d be a sand shortage. Droll, nein?
West Germans followed East German jokes to try to assess the popular mood under Communism, says Spiegel Online. Such as: What if the desert were communist? Nothing would happen. Then there’d be a sand shortage. Droll, nein?
This time a curious and very unastonishing piece in the Spectator by Martin Bright, which uses as some vital evidence Craig Murray’s long-lost fleeting relationship with Kaminski in the mid-1990s. I have posted a comment suggesting that media bunnies might like to ask David Miliband three questions: did No 10 […]
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.
I previously linked to analysis of Russia’s startlingly bad health statistics. Last night I was down at Eton College addressing the school’s busy Slavonic Society on the Psychology of Bigness, with special reference to Russia. I used one graph from this piece to show just how grim Russia’s situation is from a […]
Is hosted by a Very British dude – and his beautiful eyes. Where he links to the Heresiarch on Confiscatory Justice. And (as per my very own Suiculturicide) looks at a link on the teaching of science in state schools: Science is no longer taught as an progressive discovery, with experiments […]
Reader Norman Fraser (not clear to me which of the many NFs out there) writes: I am amazed at how intellectually short-winded most of your posts are. I deduce from the tone and context he does not mean this as a compliment. Although would being intellectually long-winded be much better? I […]
Dominic Lawson looks at one Superfreakonomic idea for solving our supposed Climate Change problem: Let’s suppose, however, that our political leaders are not mistaken in taking the view that the threat to mankind does come from the greenhouse effect and its consequences. Here is where Levitt’s friend Nathan Myhrvold (described […]
Looking at the way Thomas Jefferson set about his work representing the new United States of America in France in the years immediately leading up to the French Revolution, I came across a fine observation. Jefferson over in London was taken aback by the ribald anarchy of the British press: […]
Sounds like a moderate and sensible way forward. And this (via Ed Driscoll) is how it’s done: Obama To Enter Diplomatic Talks With Raging Wildfire
A zany but prominent piece in this morning’s Guardian, asserting that the newspaper has been ‘prevented for reporting Parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds’: Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has […]
