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The Forgotten People
Something Michael Moore said (10:00 minutes): “I can say that from my end of the political spectrum, we don’t forget people. We’re actually about remembering the people who are forgotten, and fighting for them… The real forgotten people, the people … Continue reading
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Strange Times
It’s all rather surreal. Tucker Carlson: WHO director Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: “The Covid-19 pandemic has given new impetus to the need to accelerate efforts to respond to climate change.” What the hell has Covid-19 got to do with climate … Continue reading
They’ll Never Stop
Antismoking zealots are idealists trying to create an ideal world. It’s what all idealists everywhere are always trying to do. It’s what all progressives everywhere are always trying to do. And that’s why they’ll never go away. They’ll just carry … Continue reading
Inevitable Reaction
Telegraph: We must accept that junk food is the new tobacco The way I see it, this means junk food is good stuff, and I should eat more of it than I already do: But the way I look at … Continue reading
One Day
They never stop, do they? Taking Liberties: Lib Dem peer bidding to extend smoking ban to outside areas thanks ASH for its “assistance” People like MP Mark Pritchard and Baroness Northover never stop working to completely exclude smokers from society. They … Continue reading
The Antismoking Bureaucrats
I probably won’t publish every day for a while. So a few fragmentary thoughts. In the hospital, none of the doctors seemed much interested in smoking. But hospital doctors probably aren’t ideologues. Hospital doctors are just trying to fix sick … Continue reading
Unthinkable
Breitbart: Study: Smokers Appear Less Likely to Be Hospitalised with COVID-19 There’s a certain incredulity expressed: It makes intuitive sense that smoking ought to exacerbate a respiratory infection such as coronavirus. Indeed, earlier reports in the mainstream media reflected this view when … Continue reading
War
Smoking is an idle time activity. Idle Theory was an inkling I had one sunny spring morning in 1975. I’d recently started building heat flow models at university, and was wondering how to judge whether one heating system was better … Continue reading
Smoker and Antismoker: Natural and Artificial
A recent video by Scott Adams featured a guest who opened by saying: “The coronavirus is going to push us to do things we should probably already be doing as a society. Firstly we do need to practise higher and … Continue reading
Hyped Health Threats
Express: Storm Jorge now classed as WEATHER BOMB bringing heavy snow – ‘severe’ weather warning We never used to have named storms. Why give them names? Giving something a name suggests that it has a personality and a will of … Continue reading
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