In a book on the sometimes soap opera-like politics of torpedo procurement in the decade before the First World War:
Perhaps it should not surprise us that this author succeeds in making a rather dry historical topic fairly interesting and readable.
This goes back a few years, but I was recently reminded of it. A post on the economics of pricing new Harry Potter releases:
A vignette from Central Park: I pass a gaggle of young women, and one is saying, “I was watching Jersey Shore, and my dad came in and thought I was watching porn!” They break into giggles.
With some comments on the implications for the natural drugs industry.
This post is about discretion and legalism. It follows up on the post The Virtue with No Name, or the Best Mormon Essay You’ll Read This Month. (more…)
Went awry when, one surmises, the less fortunate helped themselves.
When the world no longer speaks meaningfully to us, we shout into the void and pretend the echoes come to us from on high.
–Thus Roger Kimball
But I confess it made me laugh out loud anyway.
Long-time readers will understand why I have not shared this with His Majesty.
