The MOST INCOMPETENT Railroad You’ve Ever Seen!
Southern Plains Railfan Published Jan 6, 2024 In today’s video, we recount the time Penn Central let nearly all of Maine’s potato harvest rot in Selkirk yard; ruining thousands of lives and nearly...
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Simon & Schuster, founded 1924
In the latest SHuSH newsletter, Ken Whyte provides a thumbnail history of the American publishing house Simon & Schuster: The firm was started by Richard Leo Simon, a Great War veteran and piano...
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Is “Big Trans” in retreat?
In the latest Weekly Dish, Andrew Sullivan considers just how much things have changed in recent years, especially with the publication of the Cass Report on the true medical situation for children...
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El Salvador’s approach to fighting serious crime draws gasps of horror from NGOs
In Niccolo Soldo‘s weekend collection of links, he devotes some attention to the amazing success of El Salvador’s current government in driving down the murder rate and why it’s causing much...
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QotD: Binding and non-binding rules
Describing situations in which violating a sound rule will make the world a better place is surprisingly easy. The reason for this ease is that the very purpose of rules – “the reason of rules” – is...
View ArticleMaking a Lie-Nielsen Plane From Start to Finish
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Published Dec 8, 2023 See the process of making the Lie-Nielsen No. 62 Low Angle Jack Plane: initial pattern making; pouring the castings at the foundry; machining, grinding, and...
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For you, is no autobahn
eugyppius on the German federal government’s latest brainstorm to achieve their mandated emissions targets: “Old Autobahn” by en:User:DF08 is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 . … despite the headlines, they...
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Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Impresa – the 1919 occupation of Fiume
Ned Donovan on the turbulent history of the Adriatic port of Fiume (today the Croatian city of Rijeka) after the end of the First World War: Fiume was a port on the Adriatic coast with several thousand...
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QotD: The mid-life crisis, male and female versions
Most men get over the strippers-and-sports-cars overreaction pretty quickly, generally to be replaced by a new outlook on life. The guys who have come through the midlife crisis are generally a lot...
View ArticleFrench M14 Conversion – the Gras in 8mm Lebel
Forgotten Weapons Published May 16, 2016 The French adopted the Gras as their first mass-issued metallic cartridge rifle in 1874, replacing the needlefire 1866 Chassepot. Quite a lot of Gras rifles...
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Pay no attention to what “tax me more” folks say – instead watch what they do
One way for an a wealthy person to get a lot of free media attention is to performatively declare that they should be paying more taxes. This ostentatious virtue-signalling is frequent enough that Tim...
View ArticleSoviet Berlin Offensive Begins – WW2 – Week 294B – April 16, 1945
World War Two Published 16 Apr 2024 The final Soviet assault on Berlin begins today. The Soviets have two million men supported by tens of thousands of guns, tanks, and aircraft. Opposite them stand...
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QotD: The intergenerational blame game
I believe it’s related to pensions, Medicare, and the whole Social Security scam. Boomers paid into these funds with the naive but innocent understanding that their money would be returned. Instead,...
View ArticleWhat to do if Romans Sack your City
toldinstone Published Jan 12, 2024 Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:34 Progress of a siege 1:55 Looting and violence 3:42 Recorded atrocities 4:45 Captives 5:27 BetterHelp 6:36 Surviving a Roman sack...
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“… the scary part of town, the place where the true freaks and degenerates...
John Psmith does his level best to make mathematics interesting to layfolk like you’n’me: In our end of year post I threatened to write more math reviews, and multiple people in the comments egged me...
View ArticleOn The Line with General Wayne Eyre, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces
The Line Published Apr 16, 2024 General Wayne Eyre served for decades in the Canadian Army, including as its commander, before being promoted to Chief of the Defence Staff in 2021. During his time as...
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Wagner’s Ring Cycle, summarized
I have to admit that aside from some amazing helicopter music, most of Wagner’s music isn’t my cup of tea drinking horn of mead. As a result, I didn’t know what the whole Ring Cycle was all about and...
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QotD: The “Greatest Generation”
Our parents had learned some wrong lessons from the ’20s, ’30s, and ’40s. They learned to love government too well. They learned that government was what rescued you from depression and war. Our...
View ArticleBreakfast in Jane Austen’s England
Tasting History with Max Miller Published Jan 16, 2024 What you could tell about someone from their breakfast in Jane Austen’s England, and a recipe for Bath buns as she might have eaten them for her...
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Yet another unintended consequence of the Online Harms Act – easier...
In The Line, Kevin Wiener explains another of the hidden “gems” of the Trudeau government’s ill-considered and repressive Online Harms Act that at least will please a few anti-immigration activists:...
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