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STICKY: The dismal science
If you aren't following this blog, you want to begin before you bang on abt economics:
http://econlog.econlib.org/
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Far more than anyone can possibly wish to know about me, really.
Or, In which we are introduced. (Don’t you know what ‘ther’ means?)
This is a Welcoming Post, insofar as I’m particularly welcoming. Oh, I’m not, really, a Completely Horrid Person: it’s merely that I prefer dogs and horses to people, commonly, and books to anyone and anything save perhaps dogs and horses. This may be why I Am Much Nicer Online Than ( Read more... ) -
AN URGENT & VITAL APPEAL
I don’t wish to shout, but....
Each and all and every man jack of you, wherever you may chance to live, I call upon: to give your aid now. Even if it means not buying a book for Christmas. Even if it means not buying our books for Christmas.
If you cannot make a contribution as I am shortly to suggest, I really do expect you at the very least to ( Read more... ) -
A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
I ought to make a housekeeping post w/r/t Bapton Books, and our new titles, and all that, but you can get all that here and here and elsewhereInstead, it is my duty here and now to say this. I have never agreed with La Rowling on politics (I mean, really, Gordon Bloody Brown?). I have seen, in the fandom she spawned - and that is the mot juste - ( Read more... ) -
As is his annual tradition online...
… Mr Wemyss gives an appropriately British salute to the Americans.
These, Sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force, by which many Gentlemen, for whose sentiments in other particulars I have great respect, seem to be so greatly captivated. But there is still behind a third consideration concerning this object, ( Read more... ) -
To all the world,
one can say only, Ha’makom yenahem etkhem betokh she’ar avelei Tziyonvi’Yerushalayim.
That there are mourners to mourn in Zion is specially the legacy of one of the greatest men ever to live, whom we mourn this day: Sir Nicholas Winton MBE.
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Where to begin....
Or, Why I Have Been Absent.
On All Hallows Eve 2014, Mr Pyle suffered a heart attack, and, on 7 November, underwent a treble bypass surgery. (Mr Pyle asks that I clarify: he remains a bass-baritone, not a treble. It was not that sort of surgery.) During his ongoing recovery and medical leave...- I have taken on many of the administrative duties at ( Read more... )
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