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It’s time to shatter the myths of the Battle of Britain
Today commemorated the climax of the Battle of Britain. You know the one, the one they made films about. And those few we still remember ‘The Few’ were immensely courageous, but the image of plucky...
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Ave atque Vale
The Last Touchdown One of those planes, an old friend who helped keep us free, and helped Maggie remind the Argies who they were messing with, made its last flight the other day. She is a beautiful...
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Whittle, Cruz, and Polls
Bill Whittle on Ted Cruz and media bias. You know that may explain something. Have you noticed, as I have, that in the age of Obama, we conservatives/Republicans (whatever, whichever, and don’t forget...
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Someone We Should Remember
English: Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USNR Official portrait photograph. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What does it take for someone to have a navy ship named for them, and a tech conference as well? How...
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Global Warmists Angry Half The Earth Isn’t Covered In Ice
I’ve said any number of times that I don’t believe that the case has been made for anthropogenic global warming/global cooling climate change. That’s especially true in the last 50 years as the...
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Steam Pron
If there are two things I love in this world, they’d be history and transportation, especially trains. When I say that you’ll not be surprised that I love steam locomotives. The Brits have brought back...
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Sunday Afternoon at the Duke’s
Poor guy missed out on the best. from the Guardian Well, the best thing I’ve done lately is to convince Jess to write for us again. I had come to the end of the road with politics. I had said all that...
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A bit of Nostalgia
I ran across these yesterday and thought you might enjoy them as well. One for the cousins And one for us And a great disaster
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Farewell to the Junglies
The Sea Kings, pictured flying over Portsmouth Dockyard The Royal Navy has retired their Sea King helicopters, after 36 years of service. Pretty much synonymous with the Royal Marines, they served in...
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When words are not enough…
xkcd-Comic #739 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I want to pull away from politics today, so we’ll do something different. So often, we miscommunicate, it’s perhaps even more common in the written word. Even...
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Viking longship sets sail for North America
My main computer is down, so I’m on my laptop, which is not as amenable for writing, so for the present, posts will be rather simpler than normal. But since yesterday was Norwegian Constitution Day,...
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How (Real) Capitalism Works
English: (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A couple of interesting things here, relating to capitalism, and just how very far we’ve come in the last few hundred years. First off Deidre McClosky is in the...
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Then and now
Well, we’ve all seen the movies and TV shows about building railroads in the nineteenth century, the armies of men, the towns, usually called “Hell on Wheels’ for good reason. and all the rest. The...
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Fmr. McDonald’s USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour
Soon to be made by a robot near you! Well, of course, it is. That’s simple common sense, and government can try, but the market wins every time. Look I wrote about this a bit over two years ago, here,...
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Sunday Ride
You know when I was a kid, every once in a while on a nice Sunday afternoon my folks would decide to just go for a ride. It was a nice custom that seems to have died out, mostly. But this is kind of a...
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Why Uber Keeps Raising Billions
Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief. Uber is on its way to amassing $15 billion in real cash since starting in 2009. Its valuation on paper is $68 billion. Credit Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg This is interesting,...
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Can Grown-Ups Save Conservatism? A Preface
Considering what has happened to conservatism, and conservatives, politically, ideologically, culturally, even morally, in the past eleven months because of the rise of Donald Trump, it may come as a...
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Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87
From the New York Times. Alvin Toffler, the celebrated author of “Future Shock,” the first in a trilogy of best-selling books that presciently forecast how people and institutions of the late 20th...
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Update on the Zika Plague
Well, it’s almost time for the Olympics, at ground zero of the Zika outbreak, amidst the chaos and clutter, and perhaps the danger of a corrupt third world city, and its effects: unfinished and unsafe,...
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On Fire’s Downsides, NYT Has Nothing On Prometheus
It strikes me that I was perhaps a bit unfair to the New York Times yesterday. Yes, it was a stupid article, but it wasn’t quite as bad as the Tweet that got attached to it. But David Marcus, over at...
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