Peter Grant references [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2016/09/first-world-job-security-in-third-world.html] an article [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/omen-lost-shirts-david-hunt-pe] by David Hunt on the impact of offshoring. In it, I saw this little comment by Vox (italics for emphasis): > And while I can, on an intellectual basis, appreciate the economic arguments in favor of offshoring – like the one put forth by scholar Walter E. Williams, a man whose views I generally admire, h…
Background: On January 22nd, 1879, a British force of nearly 2000 men fought a force of nearly 20,000 Zulu warriors in the battle of Isandlwana, and despite the technological advantages, was nearly totally destroyed. 4000 warriors of the reserve broke off near the end of the battle to cut off some of the British forces, and ended up marching onto a small garrison of roughly 150 men called Rorke’s Drift [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke%27s_Drift]. Burdened down with hospital patie…
Vox Day takes a look [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-he-was-wrong-about-christianity.html] at Tom Howard’s journey from religion, and back, adding this tidbit: > And it occurs to me that one of the keys to the success of the Alt-West is going to be a) Christians realizing that Churchianity is not Christianity and driving it out of their institutions and places of worship combined with b) non-Christians realizing that Christianity is, far from being a societal negative, a societal nece…
Loki’s Child reads like the unholy offspring of Robert Anton Wilson’s *Shroedinger’s Cat *trilogy, and This is Spinal Tap. Some of you – especially those who’ve delved into the surreal alternate history / worlds next door of the Illuminatus and Shroedinger books, will justifiably see that as high praise. Those familiar with Spinal Tap will wonder if anyone can capture the insider knowledge and sheer ludicrousness of the music biz. It does. If anything, Spinal Tap demonstrated that there are…
Background: Much of the below is cribbed from Infogalactic [https://infogalactic.com/info/Lost_Battalion_(World_War_I)]: On October 2 of 1918, near the end of WWI, American forces of the 77th division led by Major Charles White Whittlesey advanced into the Argonne forest as part of a planned offensive. They advanced, reaching their objective at Hill 198, a defensible position, but, the French forces expected on their left flank and the other American forces on their right were stalled, driven b…