Many of the more upmarket bars do a little free-for-the-taking spread of an evening, lest one drink without something to nibble. I was hungrier than that. But it was late in the day, and the selection of sandwiches was not great. I lit on one of -- surprise -- mozarella, prosciutto and tomato, and o...
First it was the rabid muslims. Now it's the rabid Catholics.
"In this way the Catholic faith and the Catholic church are exposed to ridicule, which is justified neither by the freedom of opinion, of art, of the press nor of broadcasting," the archdiocese of Munich and Freising said in a...
Many people have said that one reason reporting on science is so dumb so much of the time is that the gatekeepers, let alone the reporters, at most publishers -- new and old -- have so little training in the subject that they don’t know how to assess what they’ve been handed. But seldom have I seen...
2022-04-27: Just for fun, and because today is a busy day, I have not gone out of my way to find any of the links that were not there on first attempt. I leave that as an exercise for the reader. Good to know that some, at least, do remain.
Tangled Bank 52 is up over at The Inoculated Mind,...
So that’s how things were this morning; horrible. Dank, sweaty and stinky.
Beneath it all, though, screws had been screwed and bones had knitted.
And so today, after only 2½ hours wait beyond a pre-booked appointment, they snipped off the bandage, wiggled the wrist and fingers a bit, and m...
