Three Pipe Problem

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:56:44 -0600

"I would say humbly, this would be Mardi Gras, New Year’s Eve, the 300th anniversary of New Orleans..."

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:18:23 -0600

““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””

- Saints have New Orleans on the verge of a huge celebration

Hitchens is like totally right. vanityfair.com

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:10:37 -0600

Hitchens is like totally right. vanityfair.com

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to...

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:25:08 -0600

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

Guests snowed in for New Year at UK’s highest pub

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:39:34 -0600

Guests snowed in for New Year at UK’s highest pub

"The department has increased late-night smoking patrols."

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:21:45 -0600

“The department has increased late-night smoking patrols.”

- VIVE LA RESISTANCE!

City’s Indoor Smoking Ban Grows Hazy Inside Some Clubs - NYTimes.com

"Brits have a great tradition of not letting their functional alcoholism drag them down. Without it,..."

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:11:01 -0600

“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.”

- Don’t worry — drink and be merry | The Spectator

"In other nations, politicians are not expected to be well-read or even functionally literate, but..."

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:20:22 -0600

“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.”

- New Statesman - No Panthéon for Camus

Requiem for the ‘people’s judge’

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:30:43 -0600

Requiem for the ‘people’s judge’

Meet the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick | The Spectator

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:41:08 -0600

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

"The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:47:47 -0600

““The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t,” Dr. Trenberth wrote.”

- Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute - NYTimes.com

CO2 levels 'stable since 1850'

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:06:11 -0600

CO2 levels 'stable since 1850'

Did Punk Rock Tear Down the Wall?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:45:09 -0600

Did Punk Rock Tear Down the Wall?

“Do I have the right to refuse this search?”

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:22:06 -0600

“Do I have the right to refuse this search?”

"I just kind of slid into law. It is sort of the default career choice in the United States."

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:50:07 -0500

“I just kind of slid into law. It is sort of the default career choice in the United States.”

- THE LAST DAYS OF THE POLYMATH

Benjamin Disraeli: Dead Cool - The Daily Beast

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:41:01 -0500

Benjamin Disraeli: Dead Cool - The Daily Beast

"It’s so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and..."

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:29:23 -0500

“It’s so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment which I like to call “shitasmia”. It not only creates this emotion: it defines it. It’s the most shitasmic cultural artefact in histor”

- Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The Guardian

‘I’m giving up my cigarettes…after 95...

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:30:58 -0500

‘I’m giving up my cigarettes…after 95 years!’ | Mail Online

The Rolling Stone who’s stony broke: Why Mick Taylor lives...

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:20:25 -0500

The Rolling Stone who’s stony broke: Why Mick Taylor lives in a rundown Suffolk semi with a shabby car | Mail Online

"Bramwell blames Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister, directly. “There were enough new regulations and..."

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:19:51 -0500

“Bramwell blames Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister, directly. “There were enough new regulations and red tape to tie up free enterprise for years … One minute Swinging London was like a giant theme park, the envy of the world, then they — Wilson and his gang — closed it down. It was as if they went out and stamped on it.””

- The Beatles were a triumph of capitalism | Daniel Finkelstein - Times Online