The one thing that gets me is how civilized they are and how correctly they do everything. Around here, we substitute muscles for brains and we don’t do anything in a civilized manner.
Between Then and Now from Joel Dueck on Vimeo.
I am going to say something rude now is this week’s rant of the week.
The dark side of Dubai is this week’s essay of the week.
In this article here, Spengler outs himself as David P. Goldman. That name has long been associated with Spengler, so this is not a huge shock to any one. Spengler might have been pushed into outing himself by this article here, but it seems that officially joining the staff of First Things had more to do with it. Scroll to the bottom of this article for First Things official announcement.
Pirates believe in deterrence. Keep that in mind when people tell you that deterrence would not work against Pirates.
A very interesting parsing of a New York Times article. The first couple of paragraphs of the post are just blather. But keep reading.
Russian surgeons have claimed to have found a two-inch fir tree growing inside a man’s lung.
It is all too easy to hear of a mass shooting and to just think of the victims as being numbers. The latest essay from Cloudy Day Writing provides a corrective to that way of thinking.
The End of the World Is Nigh Again. (A post arguing that the market is due for another major correction).
The Fruits of China’s One Child Policy. We all know that there is going to be more males than females in China because of the one child policy. But the figures keep getting worse and worse.