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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Liberland
H/T smokingscot for Liberland. According to the Guardian, 7 square km Liberland came into existence as the world’s newest sovereign state in April this year, In the week since Liberland announced its creation and invited prospective residents to join the … Continue reading
Worse and Worse
Chris Snowdon has a couple of recent articles, one with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver calling for taxes on sugar, the other with other busybodies asking for the same on meat. The gist of them seems to be that we’re being lined … Continue reading
Another “Logical Evolution”
Via a comment by Roobeedoo: Nonsmokers will have a bylaw to back them up when they ask smokers to butt out in parks and outside civic facilities starting next spring. They won’t, however, be able to summon a bylaw officer. … Continue reading
Degrees of Freedom
Chris Snowdon has an article in the Spectator about how Australian health activists are trying to redefine ‘freedom’ to mean ‘safety’. The latest example of this comes from the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA). Its spokesman told the nanny state … Continue reading
A Billion Lives
I gather there’s a movie out called A Billion Lives. I think it’s about ‘vaping’ or something. And Aaron Biebert, its director, has said: It seems that many pro-smoking advocates would like to hurt our film because they are delusional … Continue reading
Earth is Cooling, Not Warming
Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later: Russian military jet shot down by Turkey. The finger of territory over which the Russian jet reportedly flew is about 2 km wide, and at the Su-24’s top speed of … Continue reading
A Snake in the Committee Room
I came across Sheila Duffy’s appearance before the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee on Headrambles late last week, and it’s been bubbling away at the back of my mind for days. Her petition starts at about 54 minutes in, and … Continue reading
Is The EU Dead?
Janet Daley in the Telegraph: What is left of the European idea? Whatever indeterminate reassurances emerge from however many EU “summits” on security and shared intelligence, everybody must know that Paris was the end… She lists the shambles and the … Continue reading
The Forgotten Parisian Smokers
A week after the Paris shootings, new videos have appeared online and in the Daily Mail. The first video is from security cameras inside the Casa Nostra restaurant on Rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi, Paris, and shows the attack as it … Continue reading
Andrei Sakharov and Trofim Lysenko
Readers may have wondered yesterday how a theoretical physicist like Andrei Sakharov came to know anything at all about genetics. In 1930, Soviet biology had fallen under the spell of Trofim Lysenko, who had no time for either genetics or … Continue reading
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