I found a link to the first of these sites in the Corner a week or so ago but have taken my sweet time getting around to posting about them on my blog. First up is a site that really probably won't have much interest for anyone now that the Winter Olympics are over, but … Continue reading Maps and the Olympics
Day: February 28, 2006
Admiral Lord Nelson, Scumbag
I finished a couple days ago with a (fairly) new biography of Horatio Nelson, The Pursuit of Victory. I'd kind of admired him for some time, not because I really knew much about him, except that he was a pretty successful admiral. He won the Battle of the Nile, the Battle of Copenhagen and, as … Continue reading Admiral Lord Nelson, Scumbag
The Conservative Mind (Accelerated)
Since I'm not blogging as often as I was (almost level 41!), I'm going to start putting several excerpts from The Conservative Mind in each of these posts about the book. Not that you care.(Quoting J.H. Halowell) "Only when liberalism coupled the contract theory with the belief in objective truth and value, transcending all individuals … Continue reading The Conservative Mind (Accelerated)
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