Renewables? Already! 2024-09-05 I read a short passage from Joel Salatin’s “The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs” this morning. Just because we have been blessed with natural resources or […]

Crushing the Hashashin 2024-09-03 One or two short paragraphs today. When people say that Afghanistan is the “graveyard of empires”, what do they mean? If backward barbarians like the […]

AI's a good tool, videos are in vogue, and books are best. I happened to pick up a poor, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed young person this morning. I say “poor” because I was the one who happened to pick her up, […]

Reading part of Ch 11 of "Wealth, Poverty and Politics." This portion is about how it is far easier to concentrate power rather than to concentrate knowledge, and it is knowledge, what lies between people’s […]

Some thoughts on "Good work and Good works." “Good work and good works” is an essay by CS Lewis written probably before 1959 but was published before Christmas of that year in the Catholic Arts […]

Reading "Good work and good works" by CS Lewis. I came across this essay by CS Lewis while listening to something else online and determined immediately to get a copy in print. Well, electronic […]

One or two takeaways from the life of Victor Davis Hanson. I embed a video of a conversation between Peter Robinson and Victor Davis Hanson here. If I could add a title in the midst of VDH’s name, I would add […]

Reading "Fanning the Flames." A very short read today. I would like to buy the book on “Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan” which is edited by KAORU (KAY) UEDA, or […]

Reading a portion of "The Empire strikes back" of "There is no alternative." This morning we read a small portion of “The Empire Strikes Back” of Claire Berlinski’s “There is no alternative”, which is a book about Margaret […]

New Current Ukraine War Reality 2024-08-15 I read today George Friedman’s article “The New Reality in the Ukraine War.” This is free on the Geopolitical Futures website and can be accessed […]

German pianos? Today I read a small portion of Thomas Sowell’s “Wealth, poverty and politics.” I highly recommend that you get the book and read it for yourself. I […]

Mongol Law 2024-08-13 I read this morning a short passage from Jack Weatherford’s “Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world”. It was taken from Chapter 3 and was […]

Enough food? 2024-08-12 This is today’s reading of a short passage taken from Thomas Sowell’s “Wealth, Poverty and Politics” which I have enjoyed immensely. It is from […]

It's the Machete, not Me, Dum Dum! Familiarity doesn’t breed contempt. A lack of honouring those in leadership does. This is because we become disrespectful if we don’t honour […]

De-population bomb. My takeaways from the conversation between Peter Robinson and Nicholas EberstadtI was introduced to the work of Dr Nicholas Eberstadt in Sep 2022, via Peter Robinson’s “Uncommon Knowledge.” Dr Nicholas Eberstadt is a political […]

Foreign Direct Investment = Capital Flight? I must confess that the lorikeet wasn’t the one who told me that. But think abut it. If your economy is doing wonderfully great in its own […]

No Manners, please, we're Pretentious. The definition of a deepfake can actually be found in the Bible. I quote it below. (Pro 11:22)  As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a […]

Insist on Rigordemia. Fight Acamortis. The Cambridge Dictionary definitions of academia and rigor mortis, according to the Internet, are as seen below. The definitions of the strange […]

Live Better. Get Moving! When the ball of continuously-dividing human cells called a blastocyst starts to form our alimentary canal or digestive system, the anus is first […]

Takeaways from RAND article on Ukraine's postwar recovery. I do glance occasionally at what’s going on in the world, and this RAND article caught my eye this morning. You can read it for yourself. The […]