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D-Day 2014
Two years ago, my wife and I spent some time visiting the sacred grounds of real sacrifice for a real cause. On the Normandy beaches of D-Day, we stood where Americans, Brits, and Canadians mounted the largest, most ambitious and … Continue reading
Posted in Sense
ROPO – I love it!
The Natural History Museum, London, has received a multi-million pound donation to update/upgrade? the entrance hall. Comments were, of course, all over the place, but this one contains my new favorite acronym:
Posted in Nonsense
Reclaim the Quarter Inch
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hide-tab-bar-with-one-tab/ Why? Reviews: by James on March 10, 2014 · permalink · translate Perfect, does exactly what I expect. I cannot for the life of me fathom why this feature was removed from Firefox, and with more than 21K people … Continue reading
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Paratrooper Conrad Lewis and his dog Peg
‘I can’t look after my son any more, but at least I can look after his dog’ – more –
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Scarlett Johansson vs Israel Boycotters
One of the sexiest women in America has the PC crowd in a swivet. Scarlett Johansson, you see, is shooting a Super Bowl ad for SodaStream. Huh? As it turns out, SodaStream, the Israel-based booming “make your own soda at … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Jennifer Saunders on the BBC
BBC used to be Ab-Fab, now it’s full of executive idiots In a tirade worthy of her Absolutely Fabulous character Edina, Jennifer Saunders has criticised the BBC, claiming that it has become “an executive-run place for idiots”. – more –
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Joanna Lumley & Peter Pan
Joanna Lumley has revealed how close she came to not joining the cast of Absolutely Fabulous, after she initially failed to make writer and co-star Jennifer Saunders laugh. Lumley, 67, who was speaking on Saturday at Wigtown Book Festival, described … Continue reading
Posted in Nonsense
Please Don’t Make Me Wear a Red Shirt
Keep your redshirt on: a Bayesian exploration Author: Matthew Barsalou Guess who’s not coming back?
Posted in Nonsense
Jef Raskin, Organ Player?
Jef Raskin, Organist Who knew? One of Raskin’s instruments was the organ. At his home he played an “army field organ”, a portable reed organ designed for military chaplains, and he once bought a pipe organ from a … Continue reading
Posted in Sense
Backing Up Slowly & Saving Face
Climate change: we’re not doomed quite yet. First it was Global Warming. Then, when that was discredited, it became Climate Change. Now . . . –more–
Posted in Climate Science
Thatcher on Socialism
A video excerpt from Margaret Thatcher’s last speech in Parliament as Britain’s prime minister.
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Cows, Constitution, Commandments & Carlin
COWS Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that our government can track a cow born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she sleeps in the state of Washington. And they … Continue reading
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Freezing to Death in England
It’s daft to draw any conclusions from this freakish, frozen spring. But in general, the computer-generated predictions do not seem as reliable as they did when Al Gore was using them to scare the bejesus out of us. A few … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science
Huellogy
This “Huellogy” comes in the form of two Odes (sung to familiar tunes): (To the tune of “Davy Crockett”) – RAY’sd with an AKsent out of TEN-a-SEE NICE green STATE but not SO a-may-ZEEN GOT him a JOB where he … Continue reading
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