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Month: December 2020

Christianity

Silent Night (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle)

24th December 2020 OldTrout 2250 Comments

The Silent Night Chapel (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle) is located in the town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol Silent Night and its librettist, Joseph Mohr [more…]

21st Century

After The Goldrush (an historical reprise)

23rd December 2020 Colin Cross 4341 Comments

There was a band playing in my head And I felt like getting high I was thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie 2021 started as many had [more…]

Arts

Film Review: Starship Troopers

23rd December 2020 Going Postal 3080 Comments

Robert A. Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers (1959) marked his transition from writing juvenile pulp science fiction to serious novels of ideas, in this case setting forth a highly reactionary and militarist political philosophy. Paul Verhoeven’s [more…]

Animals

Meet Phoenix the Egyptian Duprasi – Last Update

23rd December 2020 Going Postal 1834 Comments

Thanks Going Postaliers, for these wonderful ‘photographic adaptations’ – I saved them after my first article on Phoenix in June – they are in her photo file and much appreciated. But I have to write [more…]

The finished article
Hobbies

5. Shunting forward

22nd December 2020 Sweaty Dave 3133 Comments

We last left the challenge with the track due to arrive. JandJmodels.co.uk  was closed due to lockdown, so having spare time, delivered the track in person. Peco had finally managed to manufacture a new set [more…]

Engineering

Cars I Have Loved (And Hated)

22nd December 2020 Going Postal 2793 Comments

Over the years, like I suspect most of you, I have owned quite a number of cars. Some I have loved, some I have hated, some I have been indifferent about. Ford Escort Mk 1 [more…]

Authoritarianism

Pretext for Dystopia – You Lucky People, Part One

22nd December 2020 Going Postal 1902 Comments

By titling their recently published World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, the evident glee with which the authors – economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret – greet the pandemic as a harbinger of [more…]

Arts

Cnuteneering, Part Six

21st December 2020 El Cnutador 2950 Comments

Welcome back to Cnuteneering, where the possible is made more difficult by bone headed ignorance, overenthusiasm and pointy metal things being brought together. You may want to refresh your memory on the project in: Part [more…]

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Economics

Some Unseasonal Reflections on Money

21st December 2020 Emile Woolf 2942 Comments

Several comments and questions on my last essay deserve a thoughtful response, which is the theme of today’s essay. You may recall its references to today’s dependency culture – the “expectation syndrome” that fuels the [more…]

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