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This [decline of the Canadian film industry] was further complicated by the colossal failure of Carry On Sergeant (1928), an expensive dud...

I received an old-fashioned letter from Dr. Kapital this week, in which he made an interesting observation. "The Other Front [he wrot...

If you see a car in this video, it will crash. But it’s not the crashes I love so much as it is the reactions of the Finns watching ...

One evening in Vienna in 1933, as Nazi thugs skirmished with police outside, Lorre sat in a ‘subterranean bohemian wine place called Majo...

Have I ever steered you wrong? Prime Minister Boris Johnson was battered again on Wednesday as lawmakers from his own party and the opp...

I cannot overpraise Bryan Curtis' interesting article on The Big Show (1992-1997).  As I read it I copied a paragraph or two as a te...

"I don't want an election, you don't want an election," Johnson said... ( link )

For a raid to be a raid, three conditions must be fulfilled: There is an (attempted) surprise attack The force goes to a hostile location...

I also find this bit timely: The more prohibitions and rules,  The poorer people become.  The sharper people’s weapons,  T...

The Marine Corps raiding manual singles out one raid for particular praise, Operation Claymore, the March 1941 British commando raid on the...

He began by quoting Shakespeare, then gave a proclamation about advances in technology making human beings eternal before dourly lifting up ...

Here are a few basic principles from the U.S. Marine Corps publication  Raid Operations , which is available for download by raiding hobbyis...

# of homeless: New York: 76,500 Los Angeles: 55,200 Bay Area: 28,200 Seattle/King County: 11,600 DC: 11,500 % of homeless who are ...

The look you get from your cat when he leaps up on your desk to partake of whatever it is you are eating, only to discover you are eating ch...

Just messing around tonight with Primitive, a Mac program that rebuilds photos up from primitive shapes.  Here I've taken the moment ...

This post relies heavily on an outstanding booklet by defense analyst Robert Forczyk entitled Red Christmas:  The Tatsinskaya Airfield Raid,...

Short but good, a few good stories from the estimable Caro, author of The Power Broker , and The Years of Lyndon Johnson ,  an acclaimed bio...

Emerging podcast pioneer Conan O'Brian is, based on the two podcasts I've listened to, good: Patton Oswalt ( link ) Bob Newhart ...

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(Bloomberg) -- California’s general-obligation bond rating was raised by Fitch Ratings to AA, third-highest investment grade and a step abov...

Attendance was not mandatory for thousands of union workers at Royal Dutch Shell’s petrochemical plant north of Pittsburgh, but they had to ...

put a tournament in any movie and that movie instantly becomes 20 percent more interesting https://t.co/4tNxl07zUm — Shea Serrano (@SheaSerr...

Coming up - after I read the book - a series of thoughtful and reasoned pieces on Prussia, its rise, its remarkable innovations that are e...

Don Sheldon - B-17 tailgunner , 26 missions, Distinguished Flying Cross Jay Hammond - fighter pilot Black Sheep Squadron Lowell Thomas ...

99% Invisible is very good, available wherever podcasts are sold.  Some favorites: "He's Still Neutral" - ( link ) "L...

I got this book from Loussac Library, and you bet I read it cover to cover.  As far as it was concerned, the B-70 Valkyrie was the baddes...