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Following on from my brilliant analysis of USAnian politics I feel inclined to write some words on DOGE and related matters; and Sabine...

So another election looms. I find my words from 2020 are weirdly recyclable:  Well, there's an election coming up - you may have noti...

My headline is a half-remembered quote from a poem read at school in childhood. And since I haven't had a poem or art here for a bit......

Having established - at least to my own satisfaction -  The Foundations of Morality , I can now play the fun game of deconstructing other p...

WKWW refers. The shiny new Parliamentarians’ Guide to Climate Change says "Climate change is an area fraught with disinformation, cr...

The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt is an essentially correct analysis of morality; I recommend it highly 2 . You can, if you lik...

By the sword you did your work and by the sword you die 1 will be recognised by all cultured folk as a quote from Aeschylus, spoken by Cly...

Having come back from France I guess I really ought to knuckle down and post some scintillating content, despite the lack of interesting th...

Trump, because he was a clown, put tarifs on imports of photovoltaics. Biden, because he was also a clown, maintained and extended this. Ho...

A Heritage of Stars by Clifford D. Simak  is a harmless lightweight piece of SF-fantasy "pastoral" fluff. There is no particular ...

You should probably start by reading SCOTUSblog's  Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies for a larg...

Another year, another Mays . Somewhat wet this time ; my pic is from Friday M2 which was especially rainy during the row-down; here we see,...

Spinoza, Ethics was recommended by Russell; that is recommended in the influence on thought sense. I "read" (browsed, skimmed, ev...

Before you get too excited, no, this is nothing to do with the current fracas in the near orient ; instead it is a work of philosophy by Nig...

Another one bites the dust; at least according to wiki . I'd tell you what the Dork Side thinks, but WUWT is giving me "429 Too Ma...

Middle East news: both sides are trying to avoid giving a definitive answer to those nice USAnian's peace proposal, and are hoping they ...

Welcome to ye merie monthe of jun. Which is always a busy month of rowing - Mays is in swing as I speak - so perhaps that excuses my shame...

Moans Sabine  (5:25 in the video), in the context of GW. The answer of course is because that's what the system rewards; it's what ...

Gangsters in El Salvador are terrified of strongman Nayib Bukele says the Economist, and after noting He protects citizens from crime it ...