Tag Archives: Winston Churchill

secret agent nurse: for king and country

…Though his one fact-finding sortie behind enemy lines was a failure that ended in his capture and hanging, Nathan Hale remains America’s favorite spy, largely because of the words he is said to have uttered just before dying: “I only … Continue reading

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2 minute warning

According to Nate Silver, there is approximately a one seventh chance of Romney getting the presidency. The statistical equivalent of being down by a field goal with three minutes to play. Maybe being down by a run with two outs … Continue reading

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battle never done

John Lukacs once made the rather pessimistic observation that had Hitler succeeded in subduing England and conquering the Island, the English would have acted with the same dynamic of complicity and collaboration with the victors that the French had exhibited. … Continue reading

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sugar daddy

Secrets of winning elections and making friends. Who would have known that in the last quarter of an election year, the faucets would opened to juice the economy and goose the reluctant into the ballot booth? Helicopter Ben Bernanke and … Continue reading

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plan-o-gram: the harder they come

The path of least resistance. Start by bringing up Chamberlain and equating Iran with Munich. Its ingenious because Iran could conceivably threaten the West, but the comparison with Iran’s capabilities, although extensive does not measure to the killing capacity of … Continue reading

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bummed out on bengal

The stereotype of the Indian from India in American culture has been an enduring one, in part inherited from British colonialism and shoehorned into the mass media tropes that frame our present perceptions. If all the oppressed and colonized peoples … Continue reading

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collect the gag panels on them

by Art Chantry: this is something else i collect – little corporate booklets of cartoons. basically, big business likes to commission gag comix from cartoonists and publish them in their magazines and advertising. they think that means they ‘support the … Continue reading

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hallmark greetings: slouching towards middle america

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i once had the opportunity to visit the hallmark card company headquarters in kansas city, missouri. they actually PAID me handsomely to drive over (i lived across the state in st. louis at the time) and … Continue reading

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the age of incompetence

Are our government’s in the West incompetent? No doubt the nation state is in crisis and its future of more than passing concern. Whether in terminal collapse as some libertarians seem to be wagering on, or some from of re-tooling … Continue reading

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Mystery of the Masons: part I

A guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: Exploring the architecture of human perception. There is an aesthetics of Masonry that in light of the Royal wedding of April 29, became more visually represented… Tai Carmen: Though Masonry is identical … Continue reading

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