Let’s say you were just at a restaurant and a little kid ran away from her parent and into the kitchen — an environment with flames, hot grease, knives, slippery floors, and all manner of other dangers. And the parent… Continue Reading
The British government is worried about economic deflation. Deflation, as in money becoming too valuable as compared to the goods and services for which it is exchanged. And damn, did they find an effective way to fight that. The Bank… Continue Reading
At the end of December, I made sixteen predictions for 2009. Here’s how I’m doing so far: Prediction Status The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. I may have been too modest in this… Continue Reading
On this day in 1737, Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England. If we look to men like George Washington, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton as our founding fathers, we should look to Thomas Paine as the irritable, curmudgeonly, and… Continue Reading
We’ll revisit this post in a year. Here are some things that I will be looking for in 2009: The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. A human being will be cloned. There will… Continue Reading
In February of this year, Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, H.M. Royal Marines, was assigned with the rest of his unit to Afghanistan. While out on a raid on a Taliban compound, he felt a wire move against his leg and… Continue Reading
On this day in 1773, patriots protested the Tea Act by dressing up as Mohawk and Narragansett Indians, boarding ships in the Harbor, and dumping over 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The water of Boston Harbor has been… Continue Reading
An American man, a retired university professor, suffers from motor neurone disease, which deprived him of the ability to use his arms and legs and requires the use of a ventilator to stay alive. This is the same disease that… Continue Reading
I don’t think that children need to look in a dictionary to know what a blog is. But they might need to do that in order to know what a bishop or a cathedral is. Which is why I think… Continue Reading
When does a nation begin to exist? An interesting question, when you think about it. One of relevance seeing as Russia recognized the existence of the independent nations of South Ossetia and Abkhazia yesterday over the vehement objections of the… Continue Reading