Feb
19th
Fri
19th
"What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "To smoke," he [Holmes] answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
Jan
24th
Sun
24th
I would say humbly, this would be Mardi Gras, New Year’s Eve, the 300th anniversary of New Orleans and the invention of television all wrapped up into one
Jan
2nd
Sat
2nd
The department has increased late-night smoking patrols.
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VIVE LA RESISTANCE!
City’s Indoor Smoking Ban Grows Hazy Inside Some Clubs - NYTimes.com
Jan
1st
Fri
1st
Brits have a great tradition of not letting their functional alcoholism drag them down. Without it, arguably, we would not have punk rock, romantic poetry or basic democratic freedoms — for as Churchill urged us to remember, he ‘took more out of alcohol’ than alcohol took out of him.
Dec
30th
Wed
30th
In other nations, politicians are not expected to be well-read or even functionally literate, but France is still an exception - or was until recently.
Nov
26th
Thu
26th
Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick | The Spectator
What Heaven And Earth sets out to do is restore a sense of scientific perspective to a debate which has been hijacked by ‘politicians, environmental activists and opportunists’. It points out, for example, that polar ice has been present on earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time; that extinctions of life are normal; that climate changes are cyclical and random; that the CO2 in the atmosphere — to which human activity contributes the tiniest fraction — is only 0.001 per cent of the total CO2 held in the oceans, surface rocks, air, soils and life; that CO2 is not a pollutant but a plant food; that the earth’s warmer periods — such as when the Romans grew grapes and citrus trees as far north as Hadrian’s Wall — were times of wealth and plenty.
- Let me say once again, “global warming” is garbage. Now, if only the truth will out on second-hand smoke, my faith in science and reason will be restored. Now, I’ll drop the subject.-jm
