Dean Walton: I enjoy this so very much. I revisit this at least twice a year. I cared for many WWII vets as a CNA, and one WWI vet. I can easily imagine the two lovely seniors. I truly hope “the boys” had a fine time playing.
T. Beholder: The author puts an effort into arrival at the desired conclusion stated first. But fails to do it without leaps.
Bruce: Freddie running cover for D muscle backed by D party courts, D media, and D outriders like Freddie.
Jim: Do the other 75% of working-age Britons make anything of more value than they would were they out of work?
Jim: Freddo: “Someone tell Zelensky he should ask for solar panels rather than Tomahawk missiles.” Who?
Bruce: Is this really worse than Dame Judi Dench, Bond Girl? Bond haters running the franchise have been burning the brand since the 1980s.
Freddo: Someone tell Zelensky he should ask for solar panels rather than Tomahawk missiles.
Jim: Freddo: “As a consequence the civilian electrical grid is a more valid war target. You win some, you lose some.” Solar panels more or less completely remove the need for an “electrical grid”, let alone a “civilian electrical grid”.
Michael van der Riet: Bruce, it is a fiction that the war is between Ukraine and Russia. The war is between the US and Russia. The Ukrainians are just the extras, or the chorus line if you like, there to provide the blood and suffering. “The success of an ally.” Hah.
Freddo: As a consequence the civilian electrical grid is a more valid war target. You win some, you lose some.
Jim: Quality of life would significantly improve for everyone if electric scooters like this were the only permissible ordinary short-range mode of travel.
Jim: That scooter looks extremely fucking cool. I want one.
Jim: Bruce: “The world would be a better place if the Ukraine conflict was over.” For whom? The United State is very pleased to expend the Ukrainians down to the very last man, woman, and child, and the Ukrainian state’s balls are so thoroughly in the United State’s purse that that is just what will happen.
Bruce: Michael van der Riet: It is proper for Americans to applaud the success of an ally. The world would be a better place if the Ukraine conflict was over. As Salvador Madariaga wrote: ‘What is a conflict? It is a problem that has become poisonous. What is a problem? It is a question that has become neglected. What is a question? It is an everyday matter that needs our attention. If therefore we want to avoid wars, it is very little use waiting to avoid our ordinary, humdrum matters until,...
T. Beholder: So it’s more or less a quiet and light motorcycle. And now mounted infantry is used by both sides. Did anyone predict this?
Michael van der Riet: This is your blog and content is your exclusive preserve, but the prolonging of the conflict costs thousands of Ukrainian civilian and conscript lives. Every exciting new killing technology deployed by Ukraine only ends up being copied by Russia a couple of weeks later, and the killing continues.
Isegoria: “Now our host replaced those U+2168 and U+2169 with ASCII.” I’m afraid the blog software eats unusual characters before I ever see them.
T. Beholder: Gaikokumaniakku says: I did some web searching and I couldn’t find any Chesterton writing about quackery. Well, he does not use the word. But. There are no outright rants, but it’s a major recurring theme of Chesterton. As Scott Alexander put it in review of Seeing Like a State, «the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature.» Chesterton did many stabs at the (new) upper classes and their modernist fashion (what James C Scott...
Bruce: David Foster: EdRealist hasn’t done a post on his site, but on his twitter he reposted AnalyticVallayGirl: Not fucking one of you lazy incurious fucking clowns had posted a single fucking source showing that Mississippi’s early elementary curricula across the state was “whole word” and that it completely shifted to “phonics”, and when this happened. Quote Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan · Sep 26 This is a really fascinating report, and it highlights three things...