Since this week’s rant of the week is highlighting a movie about the decline of Great Britain and the failure of the Wig vision of history, we thought that Horiatis would be the proper poem of the week.
After all, Thomas Babington Macaulay helped make Great Britain great and he helped promulgate the Wig view of history.
This week’s rant of the week is a movie trailer for a movie that has made a lot of people very uncomfortable over in Great Britain. It is a revenge fantasy with a twist. It is a tale about the futility of police that policemen love. It calls out for Old Testament justice. It challenges the Wig view of history that all progressive believe even as they profess not to.
And it does all this by having a nice old man kill lots of people.
Wait till a little past the one minute mark.
Another rant on garbage statistics as a reminder to you all of what goes on.
This week’s essay of the week is “How Israel Destroyed Syria’s Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor” from Der Spiegel.
This might be next week’s essay of the week. But if you have the time, you might want to read it now. The question of the hour is who told what and why. You can’t believe anything you read in such articles and yet it might all be true.
From Megan McArdle:“California has come up with a novel way to close this year’s budget gaps: it’s increasing withholding from the paychecks of its citizens.”
You can leave, but you can never talk. What would happen if a church tried to slap such a legal injunction on a pastor?
Lines that make you lose respect for Scientists: “”Early paleontologists recognised the distinction between adults and juveniles, but people have lost track of looking at ontogeny – how the individual develops – when they discover a new fossil.”
This week’s poem of the week is “Epistle (to the author of The Three Impostors)” by Voltaire. This poem has widely quoted line “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him” in it. It is presented for education rather than for your enjoyment.
By reading it, you will come to understand to thing about Voltaire. He was smart and he was full of himself.