Something is killing the boys
In what I rather euphemistically refer to as my "spare" time these days, I have been noodling around, out of interest, on Excess Mortality data. The inspiration for this came from a Twitter post...
Friday T&A: A Hint of Spring Edition
It has been one very long and extremely busy week - this is one of those cyclical turns that comes around every so often, when everything happens at once and there is almost never a spare moment....
Monday morning with Boney N
Well, yet again, that weekend zipped by WAY too damn fast, and yet again, we find ourselves confronted by the horrors of Monday. At least I was able to catch up on some much-needed R&R over the...
Sunday Scripture: The Sign of the Fleece
36 Then Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, 37 behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry...
The death of the “rules-based international order”
Exactly two years ago today, we all woke up to discover the Russian Federation, under the orders of President Vladimir Putin, had launched a powerful invasion of its much smaller neighbour, Ukraine....
Friday T&A: Defender Edition
Since my capacity for deep thought is rather limited today, due to the extraordinarily busy few days I've had, I will spare you my usual nonsense about geopolitics and current events. All I will say...
Save our spines!
Telegram channel member GW asked me to send over a couple of videos that I previously recommended from ATHLEAN-X on the subject of stretching out one's back, if one has herniated or bulging discs...
Monday morning apple on head
This day sure has a habit of sneaking up on us, eh? There I was on Friday night, enjoying the end of the week and the possibility of getting some actual proper rack-time over the weekend, and then,...
Domain Query: Fake it ’til you make it
This latest Domain Query comes by way of LRFotS Randale6, who asks a pertinent and germane question about the difference between natural and artificial, or "learned", charisma, with...
Sunday Scripture: Conquest of Southern Canaan
29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah. 30 And the Lord gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel....
The fall of the Citadel
The news has been streaming in since late last night that Ukraine's military high command has ordered the full evacuation of the "Ukrainian" - that is to say, temporarily occupied - large township...

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