Politics

Screen Presidents

When actors land a big part, they do not get much bigger than Commander-in-Chief. Sometimes the role is played crooked, sometimes played true....

All for Nought

In her last Christmas message of the decade, the Queen Elizabeth II began by saying: Each year that passes seems to have its own character....

Rules Britannia

If you ever watch children playing football, the preparation for the game begins with locating a ball and picking the two teams. The...

Humble Bill Says No Nobble Of Nobel

Yesterday I received another letter from Prince Karl Zeis, member of the royal house of Delfthia, and long-time fan of Halfthoughts. Prince Karl...

Lily Allen: The New Arthur Scargill

Enjoy this blog as a podcast here or at iTunes. George Orwell wrote about Salvador Dali: "One ought to be able to hold in one's head...

Ideas: Worth Less, Worthless, or Worth Even More?

When the US was a young nation, it was greedy to learn and to grow. A good example is Benjamin Franklin a famous...

Force To Be Reasoned With

Alastair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer suggested something laudable, and unusual, and despicable, yesterday. He suggested that legislators should not pass...

The Intellectual Crisis in Copying

Technology is an amazing thing. It makes you think. I do not mean it makes you think about how things work, though...

The American Sickness

The United States is sick. I do not mean Americans are physically sick. They are physically sick, but every other nation knows that already....

Harman-ies and Equations; Unions and Divides

There is an irreducible problem with making decisions. Decisions will always be terrible when people have beliefs that are passionate, confident, certain but...

What Nukes and Porn Have In Common

There are always quite a few news stories about porn, and this week was no different. This week's porn stories included: a toy...

Pirate Treasurers (and other absurdities)

The world is absurd, of course. I am trying to re-read Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, in which he deals head-on with the...
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