Too many people don't think about this. Yes the retirement home in the country is very nice, but at a certain age surely it is better to move to a small easily-maintained property in a reasonable siz… (View Post)

The canned one certainly does, it is uncanny. Haven't had the draft yet. (View Post)

"Ritual significance" is the usual cop-out for anything they don't understand (View Post)

The Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be a fairly simplistic black-and-white good-vs-evil thing to me. One side has started a war of conquest, and is carrying out rape, torture and genocide to ach… (View Post)

By November 1918 the German spring draft was spent. The Americans had just turned up with unlimited numbers of 18 year olds. War is sometimes just a brutal question of how many people you have availa… (View Post)