As we’re off to Denver shortly for a tour of the … what do you call the area … the Southwestern States? The Mountain States? Well, anyway, we’re probably going to be taking in bits of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
A couple of years ago two black bears ran right past us [...]
“Anyone trying to destroy Israel will find France blocking the way.” One is tempted to observe Israel will now be safe from attacks from the rear
Ghost of a Flea, Touchable
Most of these improvements would have been held up, if not outright prevented, by referendums. Democracy doesn’t mean having unlimited confidence in citizens. Sometimes the big picture is in better hands when politicians are running it, and a big picture takes time.
Der Spiegel reported by Samizdata: The German sense of humour
Blair, in Chicago:
No one in the West who has seen what is happening in Kosovo can doubt that NATO’s military action is justified. Bismarck famously said the Balkans were not worth the bones of one Pomeranian Grenadier. Anyone who has seen the tear stained faces of the hundreds of thousands of refugees streaming across the [...]
Courtesy of Norm.
Should these conditions continue to prevail, the legitimacy of the election outcomes would be in question.
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon
Often the corpses are hidden, but occasionally the killers like to display their handiwork as a warning. Chokuse Muphango was murdered in Buhera South last week. His killers put his body on the back of [...]
Nice is independent, and not primarily a rationing mechanism: it sanctions any drug with good evidence for effectiveness.
Polly Toynbee, The public deserves protection from the false hope of ‘wonder drugs’
So I’ve been recently diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Research demonstrates that the very best initial treatment for me would be a combination therapy such as a [...]
My GP is not available between 12:30 and 1:30. Fair enough, the man has to eat. However, the entire GP Practice is unavailable for that hour. No GP is available, no nurse is available, no receptionist is available.
It reminds me very much of travelling around rural France and Spain and finding everything closed for a [...]
Mr Ahern is the first senior figure from the Irish government to admit that it looked like the treaty had failed.
“It looks like this will be a No vote,” Mr Ahern said on live television. “At the end of the day, for a myriad of reasons, the people have spoken.”
He said it looked like other [...]
Duane Hanson (Wikipedia, Duane Hanson) was an American artist known for his hyperrealistic sculptures - you can see a few of them in the Saatchi gallery, London. I found them irresistible from the first time I saw them; irresistible but slightly unsettling, which might have something to to with the Uncanny Valley, that sudden revulsion [...]
