Saturday, 27 November 2021

Good Luck Trying to Fix the Supply Chain Crisis

The system of getting things from A to B is broken. Fixing it will involve rethinking how everything moves.



Novel Privilege

Conservative eighteenth-century novels used readers’ sympathies to defend the establishment.



Sri Lanka Bows to Chinese Pressure Again

Colombo has agreed to pay millions of dollars to a Chinese company that has reportedly supplied it with contaminated organic fertilizer.



Not A Joke

German clinics are now requiring the Covid vaccine in order to get euthanized.



The Art of Upsetting People

Jonathan Swift and the Marquis de Sade, patron saints of extremism.



Cannabis King

Mike Tyson accepts Malawi government’s invite to become country’s official cannabis ambassador.



A Dry Christmas

Poor grape harvests, nutty weather, global supply chain woes wallop wine industry.




A True Friend

How Felix Moses, a Jewish Confederate soldier, was recast in a Lost Cause myth.



Sunday, 21 November 2021

Graveyard Shift

Years of deliberate neglect led to a mine explosion in November 1968.



John Kerry Needs To Go

Chinese slave labor is ‘not in his lane’ as he pushes for climate accords. Useless waste of protoplasm.