The term “boys” is particularly significant. Boys were a group of people from the town who stuck together and formed some sort of group identity, perhaps like the boys in David Bowie’s “London Boys” and Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys are Back in Town”. It was at the Lincoln festival ...
There are only two choices that can be made in a presidential election in which the incumbent runs for another term: 1) to affirm the county’s choice made four years prior by continuing the county’s current trajectory or, 2) to repudiate the choice made four years ago and move the cou...
This city of 150,000 people has been abandoned to the short-term rental craze, at least within the historic district. Words cannot express how charming and gorgeous it all is, with the twenty-one squares and the parks and the old homes. Just outside the District, however, surroundings ...
In the last post I talked about long-term steady state solutions for the error in the gyroscopic attitude indicator’s axis of rotation (and the consequent error in the indicated bank and pitch) in long duration turns. In this post I’m going to examine the transient behaviour: how does t...
I soon perceived the futility of Bernie’s efforts, however, AND the long-term damage he was doing to Clinton. I quit wearing his “Political Revolution” tee-shirt to the gym and tried to talk up Clinton. Despite my sympathy for the cause(s) Bernie espoused, I belatedly anticipated the...
In simple terms a brand can be a name, term, design or symbol that distinguishes one thing from another. If you think way back more than a century ago, branding originated from cattle ranchers using branding irons to identify which animals were theirs. It made it super-easy to determine wh...
I decided I must change my 9 to 5+ drudgery and that if I could get just three black and white illustration commissions a month, I would be earning the same as I was at Haymarket. I was lucky enough to be living in what they called a ‘short term let’ in Limehouse, a council ...
plants and animals and time. In the long term they are unstoppable. Together with their allies’ oxygen and water they will reduce ordinance into minerals, pull down bunkers, rot leather and military webbing, fill shell holes and remove the dead. Plant root hairs absorb and assimilate. No pro...
I choseWomankind Worldwidefor this reason. Even though so much is going on here in the US with women’s rights (Vic and I both live in the States), the support that we have here doesn’t even compare to how little support there can be in marginalized communities of the world. ...
a long day’s travel. Officials and couriers in service to the rich and powerful, often also had their own changing stations. All in all, on a good day, Roman citizens who were fortunate enough to use these highways were able to move up to 800 km for every 24 hours worth of travel....