Common sense is utterly unreliable. As any pilot, historian, doctor, etc. could tell you. (View Post)

I do wish you wouldn't do that. I see the word and think 'oh good, something interesting on the Baltimore bridge collapse or something'. Instead of something that's chronologicall… (View Post)

Isn't it? A quick check confirms that the ratio of sun to earth/moon to earth distances is about 400:1 so the projected shadow is not far off at all. Obviously the sun is not a point source, tho… (View Post)

Leftie students were doing that in the 1970s, I can tell you! (View Post)

Also, in re Ms Rayner: there were adaptations to be made for a disabled family member. The newspaper making the fuss about the address for the relevant grant being house 2 did not draw the obvious im… (View Post)