But I’m looking forward to it, because after a year or so in which most of my writing has been for editors, for money, pitching sensible essays that make some broadly comprehensible point, I’m excited to have the kind of space in which I could maybe do a cheeky Nando’s again. Ei...
Pandemic: Yes, I am still going on about the pandemic. Hey, whatever public health activity is going on where you live, COVID is still making the rounds. People are still getting sick and dying. There’s a new variant going around: it’s called arcturus and so far it’s just in Ind...
Mr Trump’s re-election would mean four more years of scrambling to shield the already insufficient Affordable Care Act, but a win by Mr Biden would allow socialists to go on the offence and push for a Medicare-for-all system. Mr Trump’s re-election would deal irreversible damage to the...
August 10, 2018 at 3:23 AM Just as a follow up, Greg, Jimmy Dore has a pretty good take on the unintended consequences of letting billionaire corporate oligarchs conspire on a whim to censor someone never actually convicted of defamation, libel, slander, or — you know — an actual crim...
If you don’t think I won’t actually get my ass up early this year to be there when the doors open, you don’t know me (well, actually, I’ll probably show up between 10am and noon, but if a cat paws me awake at 5am, which there is a very good chance of, then I’ll ...
As was explained to me by a voter that changed their mind about voting, No: “Who am I to stand in the way of a chance for Aboriginals to make their lives better?” Indeed, how can we deny an opportunity that does not affect the vast majority of our lives in the slightest? Voting...
I am going to break this time from the precedents I have established on this blog and just tell a story. Four years ago, while doing some volunteer research for the Wauwatosa Historical Society, I met Rupert Schmitt, Jr., on the internet and we became fast friends. Rupert is the grandson...
November 11th: German and French officers meet in a French rail car and sign an armistice at 5am Paris time. Fighting ends some six hours later, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. Fighting in World War I ends Aftermath
Joined Jul 2, 2004 Messages 588 Location Babylonian Socialist Republic Oct 7, 2005 #1,482 Aloha Sports Fans, I've been on travel for a few days and am currently in another hotel (this time with wireless internet access). My company computer has massive firewalls etc., so the only way...
It appears that I am the only one of voting age during the Ike years so from my failing memory I will try to answer. I believe that Ike was the president of some university. In the run up to the election there was much interest in him and whether he would run as a Democrat or Re...