Neddie draws our attention to two, connected, facts. It is 80 years this week since the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. And the Smithsonian Institution has unearthed a bunch of long-lost pictures taken during the trial.

Being Neddie, he neatly sidesteps the issue everyone else would h...

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Thank heavens England possesses courts that aren't entirely an outreach of government.¹

Lord Justice Brooke said: "... All of us have the right to walk the streets without interference from police constables or CSOs unless they possess common law or statutory powers to stop us. If Parliament...

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“Saying goodbye is always safer. You’ve built up fellowship. It’s the difference between a hello kiss on a first date and a good-night kiss.”

Like that’s always an easy distinction to make! What are we talking here? We’re talking how to be a real man in the 21st century. To hug or not to hug,...

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First one sheep jumped to its death. Then stunned Turkish shepherds, who had left the herd to graze while they had breakfast, watched as nearly 1,500 others followed, each leaping off the same cliff, Turkish media reported.

I think I know what happened. The sheep had learned that their favou...

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A friend sends a link to AirlineMeals. I find the site extremely confusing, hard to get into, and not very satisfying. Rather like airline food. But others clearly like it a lot.

29 March 2018: I think it may have changed a bit since 2005.