“ Styria is one of those corners of Europe that makes the great metropolitan pieties look faintly ridiculous. Wander through Graz or the vineyards that creep up the hillsides and you notice an absenc… (View Post)

It’s often a rhetorical strategy, particularly on message boards, to undermine, insinuate, or cast doubt while dodging responsibility. Is that what you’re doing? Just asking the question. (View Post)

The number of scam texts I get has been increasing. There’s been a data breach somewhere no doubt, or my habit of scrawling my number on the back of toilet doors has come back to haunt me. (View Post)

All historical movies and TV shows are inaccurate to a greater or lesser degree. Mary Queen of Scots spoke with a French accent but she’s invariably given a Scottish one. Jesus of Nazareth was consid… (View Post)

What did he do this time? (View Post)