Author Archives: Pascal

Now that commenting has been restored, we’ll make this an open house. Here’s hoping we get no more messages such as below. Not Acceptable! An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server. This error … Continue reading →

The wannabe despot is a coward. Before he acts he needs to feel the environment has been well prepared before he makes the next move. The title of this series comes from the line endlessly repeated by the Lawrence Olivier … Continue reading →

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Even in the recent past these are words that almost never had to be said. That was because so many mostly lived like that that it rarely needed to be said. Sad to say, those days are long past due … Continue reading →

Colonel Cathcart made two lists: feathers in his cap and black eyes. Later on he’d find out that what he thought were the former eventually became the latter. Thus, in 1961, Joseph Heller (Catch 22) described the wizards of Climate … Continue reading →

Some background first. Wretchard introduced an Elon Musk tweet to this video with the comment: Some ideologies see ‘no people’ as the most humanitarian outcome. Naturally such a line caught my attention. This was how Musk introduced the video: Pretty … Continue reading →