Hark! A Vagrant is a brilliant Live Journal comic that features Kate Beaton’s take on her life and history. Her Hastings comic is fantastic, even better after being colored by a fan. Even better the author is a Canadian, so this counts as a cultural comic strip! This is one of the best history [...]
I missed this when it passed around a month or so ago. Just stumbled across it and think it is brilliant.
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.
Once the empire fades, what is left?
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on [...]
An odd circular argument I stumbled across today from Iain Murray at the National Review Online, he is arguing that by canceling flights to hold safety inspections the airlines may be pushing people to drive, which is more risky than flying and that some may die in accidents. Thus safety inspections may be killing people. [...]
It has been a quiet spring so far for the Summer of Fear campaign. I don’t know if the reporters are distracted with all this election stuff or if Mother Nature is just producing less panic worthy animals this year. Nature and the reporters better pick it up, we only have another month or so [...]
Is it the end of Feudalism? Sark finally allows universal suffrage.
My new catch phrase: More fun than a Chinese Zoo!
After a ten year battle the war is nearly over for the Melton Mowbray pork pie as it nears the protected status already given to the local legendary Stilton cheese. According to this article in the Telegraph the only hurdle remaining for the pork pie’s enshrinement in the world of protected foods is if any [...]