all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Sad after-the-fact report here by FEMA, concluding that the airplane impact and jetfuel fireball wasn’t enough to cause the Twin Towers to fall. The sprinkler system had little redundancy and its feeds were cut...
So in a followup to the Chi Mei-Feng story, I finally came across (quite by accident!) a clip, on this weird Danish/Swedish/Norge (?) version of Stile. Good technique but no stamina, limited staying power...
Taliban preparing spring attacks in what’s quickly becoming just another routine civil war in Afghanistan with the Taliban recruiting Pashtun to fight against the Uzbeks and Tajiks. Fighting vaguely conventional soldiers is one thing...
I read one American’s comment on this: She was the one of the last of the old-style, if you will, royals. She had grace, and elegance, and charm The ability of US citizens of...
Terra preta … guesses, covers at least 10 percent of Amazonia, an area the size of France. It has amazing properties … Tropical rain doesn’t leach nutrients from terra preta fields; instead the soil...
Reading a paper with a dubious agenda such as the Irish Times is always fraught with danger. In the midst of an otherwise dull story about Fianna Fail trying to grab some law’n’order votes...
A budding paedophile, sad but true. Eventually he will be compelled to actualize his paraphilia. A tragedy for all involved. And that’s deliberately wHAckjob, not wAckjob. Let us remember the wise words of Our...
Scientific American reports on a recent European study indicating that while the EU is still behind the US in terms of basic science metrics, the EU’s growth rate has risen while the US’s rate...
It’s always been a bit awkward that most of the funding for Al Qeada came from Saudi sources, most of the 9/11 kamakazi hijackers were Saudis, and thatthe country refused to let the incredibly...
Dudley got to snog Bo Derek. Milton got to snog many Zeigfield Follies. He was also the wonderfully henpecked Russell in Mad Mad Mad Mad World. On the whole I’d rather have been Milton...