What's Love Got To Do With It?

I am what they used to describe as a bachelor .... 

Tina Asked The Question ......

 ..... more by an accident of fate than any design, and at my age very likely to remain that way. So love is not something that I think about much, if ever (sex is another matter 😅).

Mental Gun Factory

It never ceases to amaze me how easily people with supposed mental disabilities ....

Autism Is Not A Hindrance To Criminal Activities

 

..... can execute sophisticated crimes such as computer hacking. 

Defending The Borders?

The situation on the southern border of the US ....

Scenes Like This On Mexican US Border Disturb Republicans

 ....has been a bone of contention between Democratic President Biden's administration and the Republicans for most of 2021 and 2022.

Films Most Iconic Cars?

Petrol head magazines and websites love nothing more than a 'greatest ever car ....' type of survey. 

Oddly The Flintstones Car Is Never Listed

But they also attract other websites, hoping to attract male participation. I have occasionally featured the results of some of these in this blog, especially as one featured my dads favourite drive, the Citroen DS.

The Body Language Sucks

In body language terms  ...

The Body Language Sucks

...... this photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his defence minister is actually rather telling. 

Let's Go Brandon

"Make America Great Again" or MAGA have taken up a new chant .... the ironic 'Let's go, Brandon'.

Let's Go Brandon!

However outside the US this reference is completely lost.

Dirt Comes Out In The Wash

As you might guess, the dirt on the Afghanistan debacle has now been coming out in the wash.

Otto von Bismarck Was Right .... Realpolitik

One striking fact was that apparently most of the armed forces attributed to the Afghan state, were in fact a paper, 'ghost' army.

The Full English Pie

 The 'Full English' is the name popularly given to the full fry up breakfast  ....

The Full English - A Spanish Staple?

.... a meal much beloved by the British population for generations, and a meal the composition of which I have posted on once before.

Even Wobblier Britain

One of the less well predicted side effects of the Covid-19 pandemic ...

Britain Is Now A Wobblier Population Post Covid-19

... is the fact that we all ate more during the lock-downs.. 

Blind To The Dangers

As the world continues to watch events unfold in Afghanistan .....

The Afghan Government Collapsed
In A Few Days In August 2021.

 ....  as its newly created Emirate, attempts and fails to fill the structure of a 'normal' government, such as education and economic competence, we have to wonder what the future holds for this benighted state.

Animal Madness

Teed Off Moose

Golfer Mark Redican was getting ready to hit a golf shot on a course near Park City, Utah, when his wife started yelling. He looked around and saw a young, but large moose approaching fast. The realised that the animal was charging  ....

When Moose Attack .... You Depart Sharpish.

..... They jumped in the cart and the moose went after the cart twice, but eventually lost interest, and they made an escape as the animal headed off to a nearby pond.

Institutional Patriarchy

There was in London a museum to women's vaginas (apparently aiming to breakdown the stigmas and taboos surrounding them) ...  

Vagina Museum - Now Closed

... which is an odd subject and aim, but given that there are other very strange museums in the world, including one to faeces, not especially so. 

 

Russian Wealth Inequalities

I make no apologies for leading this weeks posts with yet another story on Russia, because they are simply forcing me to pay attention to them .... but short of yet another horror being inflicted in the Ukraine, or a Ukrainian defeat/Russian withdrawal, then this will be the last Russian post for a while. 

This post is the second about the state of Russia itself,  and the Russian people, where immense wealth and income disparities between the rich, the poor, and the normal population exist ...

Putin's Super Rich Cronies

.... that means for instance that the top 1% of the Russian population, control 71% of the nation's wealth.

Snowflake Beer (Brewers Drooped)

Now as bitter beer drinker (I drink a type of beer called 'bitter', I'm not bitter whilst drinking it) ...

One Of These Is Deemed Offensive By Someone .....

....  I am used to beers having odd names.

Fake News Ain't New News

 I recall staying up late to watch the first man on the moon .....

The First Moon Landings Were A Great Achievement ....

..... So I have always had great difficulty with the conspiracists who have tried to claim it was faked, claims that are easily debunked.

Russia's Mercenary Troops

Such is the desperation of Russia's need for more troops to fight on the front line in the Ukraine ...

Russian Tanks Have Been Mauled By the
Javelin and NLAW Anti-tank Weapons.

... after the mauling its conscripted troops and armoured vehicles have taken, from the highly motivated Ukrainian army and volunteer fighters, that it has been actively recruiting mercenary fighters from abroad, as well as the shadowy Wagner Group (who already fight in Eastern Ukraine and Libya on Russia's behalf).