Monthly Archives: August 2021

British and Russian Cossacks

Posted on August 12, 2021 by odeboyz
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Police ‘Mafia’ in Baltimore, USA

Posted on August 12, 2021 by odeboyz

Sergeant Wayne Jenkins1 and his officers didn’t just take drugs and money from the criminals they caught: they planted drugs and guns on people who weren’t criminals (or who weren’t doing anything criminal); they broke into the homes of people … Continue reading →

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Talons

Posted on August 8, 2021 by odeboyz

If you wish to read more about this photograph go to 30-Foot Fingernails: The Curious Science of World’s Longest Nails | Live Science

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Oscar Wilde On Religion

Posted on August 8, 2021 by odeboyz

“Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.”

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Too much expertise to be comfortable

Posted on August 5, 2021 by odeboyz

A wine merchants chief wine taster died and they advertised for a replacement. A drunk applied for the job. The HR director gave him the standard tasting test beginning with a glass of wine. The drunk sniffed it, rolled it … Continue reading →

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The Unflappable Harold MacMillan: Athens 1944

Posted on August 5, 2021 by odeboyz

“MacMillan seems to have taken the daily risks with a mixture of unflappability and almost enjoyment. He and the Ambassador insisted, as a matter of principle, on using the official study, remarking in his memoirs only that ‘bullets came through … Continue reading →

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Chicken and Egg

Posted on August 2, 2021 by odeboyz
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Victor Hugo on Sewage

Posted on August 2, 2021 by odeboyz

Violating every rule of narrative, Hugo interrupts the climax of his great novel Les Misérables (1862) to hector the reader for fifteen pages about the Parisian sewer system. The city’s sewers discharged vast quantities of excrement into rivers, which carried … Continue reading →

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