Thinking Out Aloud

Over the last twelve months or so, the blogosphere saw another round of a long-standing fight over money. Not over getting more money (tho...

One of my basic analytical principles is that things reveal their nature in history (including the history that has not happened yet -- th...

My  recent post  about "green on blue" killings in Afghanistan provoked the sort of comments that indicate we have, in the moder...

Came across this cartoon. Made me chuckle. Though it was not the longbow which made English armies so deadly at  Crecy ,  Poitiers , ...

The war aim of the victorious North in the the  War Between the States  was simple -- that the Union not be divided. As Abraham Lincoln pu...

Blogging at  Free Banking , Kurt Schuler  wants us to have  a debate about gold (as in the  gold standard ). Let's not. I will con...

The recent murder of 3 diggers by an Afghan  wearing the uniform of  the Afghan National Army is part of a  pattern of murders  of NATO an...

While walking near the  Queen Victoria Market s (I had spent some time back in Melbourne, working near the Queen Victoria Markets, before ...

Just next to Yarraville Station, an act of public knitting was recently committed. I found it quite charming.

I am a single person and--due to an upbringing starved of physical affection or praise interacting with unfortunate adult experiences (the...

As folks may have noted, I like graphs; they can be very useful illustrations, particularly of historical trends.  Consider this graph, ta...