Words Seldom Seen: Cadastral
Cadastral Adjective: A type of map used to show ownership of land, especially for taxation. Example: "The...
Category: Politics
The Haircut
One day a florist goes to a barber for a haircut. After the cut he asks about his bill and the barber replies,...
Choices
The real choices we face are between competing suboptimal solutions. There is not a magic bullet that will...
Language
"A national language is a dialect with an army." Anonymous...
Permanence
“There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.” Milton Freidman Sunset over the...
The Trump Vaccine
Since it appears that the percentage of the unvaccinated correlates with the amount of Trump support in any...
Privilege
“The antidote to privilege is competition and opportunity.” William McGurn in the...
WWIT Afghanistan
President Biden ended the war in Afghanistan by letting the Taliban win. Over the next few years we'll see the...
Allies
Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy, “Not my circus, not my monkeys.” Polish saying. A fiberglass Bigfoot...
“The Graveyard of Empire”
”Afghanistan is the graveyard of empire.” This is a much quoted and often wrongly attributed saying. There...
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