Something I received this morning from my brother Greg, a veritable fountain of random information. A disturbing thought for those of us trying to loose weight.
Yesterday, I was talking with a toxicologist and
they were saying that the average person eats quite a bit of dirt every
day, enough that they need to calculate how much when […]
Henry here. Slobodan Milošević cheated the hangman. I’m against capital punishment on principle because mistakes can be and are made. It is hard to see how any mistake could be made, however, in the case of Serbian x-leader.
He seems to have been responsible for at least 200,000 deaths. Perhaps he killed himself, or was […]
This old film of Gene Hackman describes how the government is preparing to save you in the event of an emergency. In light of Hurricane Katrina, the government is presumably still working on it.
Henry here. I must be becoming cynical. I see by The Associated Press this morning a headline that “China Executes Ex-millionaire.” That didn’t strike me as strange or bizarre, as China is theoretically a communist country where the odd millionaire might well end up on the chopping block.
But perhaps I wonder if his sin was […]
Ladies and gentlemen, Steve here. I feel it necessary to pass on to you something which was brought to my attention yesterday. I never knew we were in such horrible danger, but this classic video makes clear the unseen danger in our midst.
Greetings all, Steve here. I wanted to report on a heart-warming example of family values being enforced by a stolid government bureaucracy, which always just warms my heart like I can’t even tell ya. The people of Holland, also known as the Dutch, are worried about immigrants, also known as people with the wrong skin […]
Henry here. I found a rather terrifying article by Niall Ferguson in the Los Angeles Times where he tries to write, with some objectivity I thought, about President Bush.
He says that he visited Capital Hill and was impressed by the number of senators who referred to Bush, with a 37% approval rating, as a […]
Henry here. The ferocious Battle of the Atlantic between German submarines and Allied convoys was critical to the winning of the war and the defeat of Germany. The stories merchant marine sailors and navy and submarine personnel are legion and hair raising.
Our culture is flooded with movies, books and memoirs and official papers of […]