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Everyone knows of Switzerland’s dogged policy of neutrality. Fewer people know the Swiss Armed Forces exist. And the Swiss have invaded the bordering Principality of Liechtenstein several times, albeit without meaning to. The Swiss Army actually dates back to the late Middle Ages. In the early 19th century “national defence – assuring domestic law and […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez History, Evidence and the Ethics of Belief (“Veritable reigns of terror, personal and political, have been fashioned from deeply held beliefs unsupported by the slightest whisper of evidence[.]”) Reviewing the Book Review (“To wander through 125 years of book reviews is to endure assault by adjective.”) Nonbookish Linkage I’ve […] As noted in the last installment of Loco Lawsuits, incorporeality makes it difficult to haul deities into court. But, as one aphorism maintains, “Where there’s a will there’s a lawsuit.” Adrian Moon, a California prison inmate, is well known to the Central Division of Califonia’s U.S. District Court. He’s filed plenty of challenges to his […] In 1386, a large, diverse crowd gathered in the public square in Falaise, Normandy, France. They were there to witness the execution of a prisoner convicted of murder after mutilating the face and arms of a child. The prisoner wore a new suit of men’s clothes and even the hangman provided himself with a new […] Bulletin Board New to this installment is QAnon Droppings (i.e., “Q drops”=feces), items related to the dangerous, delusional cultists Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubez Rush Limbaugh Made America Worse (“[T]he qualities that these obituary writers know full well but have assiduously buffed into nothingness in their drafts: that Limbaugh’s politics were forged in a […] |
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