Author: mike

Wasn’t outer space the dopey diversion of the well-behaved during the Cold War? Weren’t moon shots the 60s’ and 70s’ bread and circuses for a country worn out by a pointless war abroad and...

We spun around, ready to fire. I saw a boy of about 15, wearing nothing but ragged black shorts, crouching and firing an AK-47 at the troops behind us. I could see two others,...

The man leading the US hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quit amid a lack of evidence that Saddam Hussein had illegal stockpiles of arms … David Kay gave no reason...

Courtesy of NTK, I found out that you can now rent imaginary girlfriends on eBay.

The United States as a civilisation is largely a product of the recent post-Little Ice Age climate we’ve been enjoying. I wonder how well society will adjust to an impending return of 16th and...

Fun for all the family…

It also transpires that Saddam rejected part of the resistance. Although he called for jihad against the occupiers in the tapes slipped out to al-Jazeera and other Arab media, he was writing more careful...

Ideology and electoral politics so dominated the domestic-policy process during his tenure that it was often impossible to have a rational exchange of ideas. The incurious President was so opaque on some important issues...

And oldie, but goodie. Earlier here.