Position: 29°57’19.8″N 90°04’06.5″W It is not entirely clear when common sense died. Perhaps sometime between the invention of the nanny state and the concurrent exploitation of tortious liability for the benefit of hucksters. Harms, real and invented, are big business …
Public Service Trigger Announcement Nowadays it doesn’t take much to raise the hackles of my inner misanthrope. If clumps of oil were all we saw, then life on the high seas might not be quite as ecologically depressing. The one …
A Shot in the Dark There’s a new sheriff in town. Italy’s most recent Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, ordered the country shutdown for the next 5-6 weeks. Covid infection rates spiked and areas that were yellow and orange turned red. …
Position: 36°07’45″N 115°09’0″W Having entered the post-truth epoch four years ago, the nautically inclined are now entering the era of post-captaining. Boat owners and their boats can look forward to a time when the experience and nous of a skilled …
Having completed our whirlwind tour of the three contiguous countries of the United Kingdom and celebrated my 60th birthday, I’ve got a pretty good sense of how far “Thatcher’s Bloody Britain” has evolved. I was fortunate enough to live in …
Hi Guys – Marlon here. You know, I’ve had a lot of time to think about things in the past few weeks. I know you peoples think I’m just snuggling up and sleeping with you, but under the hood my …
Position: The Tropics “Tropical sun – it will burn the skin off your nose and the butter off your toast.” – Boris Spinovsky As the months slide by down here 12 degrees north of the equator, the Sun makes its …
Context I’ll start by saying I’m a Remainer. I have been all my adult life. When I moved back to England in 1977 questions of Europe, the Common Market, and the UK’s role in it were rife. Eurosceptics abounded. Things …
It’s not clear to me why people’s attitudes towards bureaucracy generally aren’t more like the gun lobby’s: “Dang it! Why shouldn’t I be able to drive a car as fast as it will go? Or walk my pet alligator onto …
