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Mark Steyn presenting the Mark Steyn Show   GB News (30 June 2022)     I.    The other evening, on the always excellent Mark Steyn Show (Mo...

Portrait of Adolf Brand (1874 - 1945)  based on an engraving by Arnold Siegfried  Der Eigene , Vol. 7 (1924)     Adolf Brand was a German wr...

Photo: Digne Meller-Marcovicz   Water is H₂O; hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water.  And no...

  Nedward and Agnes Flanders Ned's freaky beatnik parents in The Simpsons [1]     Did anyone ever actually describe themselves as a beat...

Jeff Koons: Apollo Kithara (2019-22) [1]   Jeff Koons on Instagram I.    Apollo is the golden boy of ancient Greek mythology: the god of su...

The Lad Himself Anthony [Aloysius St John] Hancock  (1924 - 1968)     On this day in 1968, the English comic actor Tony Hancock committed su...

Max Pechstein: Summer in Nidden (1919-20)     D. H. Lawrence liked to think about human life in relation to the wheeling of the year , i.e....

Front page of The Sun (20 June 2022)     I.    Some commentators seem to imagine that Britain is returning to the 1970s, pointing to rising...

Deutsche Philosophen malen lieber mit Pinseln   (SA/2022)     We all know the advantages of working with a roller rather than a brush; thank...

Trichophaga tapetzella [1]     I.   I have always liked moths. Indeed, I once wrote a post in praise of them: click here .   And even when ...