More Than Crazy, Perhaps
An infographic:
North Korea: The Craziest Country In the World
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Nemo Fried Mars Bars Impune Lacessit
Mark Steyn being chipper and optimistic again on the subject of the West in general and in this case, a favourite topic of ours in particular:
Or take Scotland. Most anywhere you go around the planet, from Hong Kong to Hudson’s Bay, almost everything that works was created and developed by Scotsmen. Now the [...]
Categories: History
A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything
Pretty much!
Categories: History
Biblical Fact o’ the Day:
As I understand it, the Book of Esther is one of only two books in the Hebrew Bible that does not mention God. It is the straightforward story of how Jews were threatened with genocide but were able to turn the tables and kill those who would kill them.
via Powerline. Happy Purim!
I read [...]
Categories: History
How to Print a Book
This is amazing:
How to print a book, with type setters, wax, copper plates, lots of blades and glue and people. Also, why don’t they seem to make videos like this anymore? I love any car ad that shows the robots on the factory floor. Why not make videos showing how cars are made, or [...]
Categories: Art and Literature
When Men Were Men, Women Were Women, and Cigarettes Advertised On Children’s Cartoons
RC2 found this Flinstones-sponsored-by-Wilson Cigarettes ad, calling it “truly edgy”:
Honestly, this it does come off just like something Family Guy would do as satire of this kind of thing. So hilarious.
Categories: Entertainment
Alexander Haig
Honestly, I’d never heard that story about him and the White House and Reagan getting shot. So here’s RC2, for all your remembrance needs:
Wheat & Weeds – No Longer In Charge
Poor Alexander Haig will always be remembered for his Constitutionally-mistaken effort to keep everyone calm when President Reagan was shot. Everyone acts as [...]
Categories: Politics
The I’m Sick Link Dump of February, 2010
SO MUCH but so little energy…
On Unions and how to deal with them:
Corner – State of the Nation, by John Derbyshire
This headline brightened up my breakfast: Unionized Rhode Island Teachers Refuse To Work 25 Minutes More Per Day, So Town Fires All Of Them [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Japanese Pesos, and Other Curiosities
Have I mentioned the currency exhibition I saw at the British Museum in 2001? It was awesome. So nerdy, so arcane. Anyway this is like that, but on an international scale. And not in real life, alas: Funny Money: Unusual and Fascinating Currency
this is currency from Japan’s occupation of Hong Kong, which is prettier than [...]
Categories: History
American Decline, Where Neither the Second Amendment Nor the Caliphate Can Save Us
Mark Steyn – THE SEDUCTIONS OF DECLINE
I don’t even know where to begin quoting this (RC2, who is probably better at hiding her straight razors than I, quoted it fairly extensively – and thoughtfully! – here, and as testament to the resilience of her state of mind, she manages to wade through a similarly-themed VDH [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Life Imitates Ellis Peters!
Telegraph – Woman used rare poison in curry to kill ex-lover A woman found guilty of murdering her ex-lover used a rare poison which has not featured in a British court case since 1882.
Lakhvir Kaur Singh slipped aconite into Lakhvinder Cheema’s curry in January last year in revenge for his engagement to a younger [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Oh Good: North Korea Is Even Weirder AND More Despicable Than We Thought
Slate – A Nation of Racist Dwarfs Kim Jong-il’s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. By Christopher Hitchens
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
A War Movie About …War?!
CDR Salamander – Must. Find. English. Subtitles. DVD …..
Tired of CGI, big budgets, anachranistic love side-stories, and political undertones of modern American military films?… Best thing about watching Tali-Ihantala is that you get to watch a different type of war movie after a while. The old [...]
Categories: Entertainment
The Fall of Constantinople and You
Touchstone – Byzantium Yet Fallen The Critical Lessons for Christians in the Long Shadow of 1453, by Paul J. Cella
Round about five and a half centuries ago, the Roman Empire was at last extinguished. By then the Empire was, of course, Greek, not Roman; Christian, not pagan; and no longer strong, but pitifully weak. [...]
Categories: History
The Pinch!
Here’s a book I, or one of you who then report back to us on your findings, need to read: The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Took Their Children’s Future – And Why They Should Give it Back
From here:
The Guardian – The Tory frontbencher deserves to be cherished as a rare politician who injects rigour [...]
Categories: History
