In the New Testament tax collectors are not looked on as fine, upstanding servants of the people. (View Post)

Then all those Spanish ships at Trafalgar were really on the British side? No wonder we won. (View Post)

I’m going to call that a false dichotomy, if only to give me an excuse to post this: Original here: https://xkcd.com/ (View Post)

Perhaps it depends on if you include the Crimea? (View Post)

That's easy: put a stick in the ground on a sunny day and every half hour or so put a pebble where the end of the shadow is. After a couple of hours you have a line that points east-west. Keep going … (View Post)