Sunday, March 27, 2022

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIII: For the Bible Told Me So

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  (Richard Gere is only fifteen years older than I am, and was in a BBC show as recently as 2019. I find that I am extremely jealous so I...
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Sunday, March 20, 2022

Postblogging Technology, December 1951, I: Christmas Truce

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  R_. C_., Arcadia, Santa Clara, California Dear Father: In the end, Reggie did decide to go to the memorial, so your phone call did some go...
Friday, March 11, 2022

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging July 1951, II With Some Public Engagement, Even: MiG Alley

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  In the course of a bit more than a century of aviation, the air has seen its share of  the ancient tradition of deniable war.  For example...
Friday, March 4, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: Wage Slavery

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  Oops! Turns out that the Statute of Labourers was passed in the twenty-fourth year of Edward III. Although I was looking for a fashion-pl...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Postblogging Technology, November, 1951, II: The Full Moon Brings Out the Crazies

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I would get your darling son's chop on this, but he is celebrating his leave by tak...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

Postblogging Technology, November 1951, I: Shedding the Load

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[See relevant link for very tenuous connection with Grand Central Aircraft ] R_. C__., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Somehow i...
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Friday, February 11, 2022

A Continued Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1951: British Nuclear Submarines, What's Going On, Here?

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  This is a pretty famous boat these days, HMS R3. It is the best photographed of 10 R-class boats built during WWI, and I see from my hard...