Moonlight Over Essex

A new ball game - with tasers. Hat-tip : The Volokh Conspiracy According to The Daily Caller, Eric Prum, one of the founders of Ultim...

Today was a good day for me .... I went to my GP, she told me that the rather worrying lump on my calf was probably just a sebaceous cyst, a...

Sometimes politics seems to be full of vitriol and anger. And sometimes politicians speak calmly and bare their soul. This is a quietly mo...

Quite a few commonly used words started off in Science Fiction. "Robot" is a good example. With all the debste over bankers sal...

Today I found three musical bits on Youtube that I liked. They've really made my day... The first is a brief snatch of President Obama...

Chris Black writes: Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" begins and ends on Christmas Eve - and should have a speci...

My wife Elena heard a news report this week on Russian TV about the most expensive apartment in the USA. I then read about it in the Wall ...

I happened to hear this song by Johnny Cash on Radio 2's "Sounds of The Sixties" yesterday, and I'm afraid I couldn't...

Unlike some other Lib Dem Bloggers, I have only a few qualms about what's happened with Europe this week. But what does disturb me i...

I recently found this, from Bertrand Russell in 1951: Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, n...

Zach Walls testifies before the Iowa House of Representatives. Hat-Tip: Andrew Sullivan

The recent comments of Lib Dem Euro MEP Sharon Bowles are pretty startling: Bowles had travelled to the event directly from Brussels to i...

I'm watching the Russian elections live ... on Russian TV. From what I can see on the screen, Putin's party is down to 49%. Medved...

I'm delighted to see that the Damn Interesting website has come back to life , after a two year gap. I'm delighted because it has s...

Well gosh , it's months since I posted something. Not exactly writers block, but ... life has been kinda busy. So to get back into pos...