Actually, civilians taking up arms in the early days of the Ukraine war had an effect. There was a very good article in the New Yorker (I think) that detailed what happened in a small town in the lin… (View Post)

ko-wakizashi ? (View Post)

You don’t *think* you have a cat. Perhaps a cat has you - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/More_Ghost_Stories_of_an_Antiquary/The_Stalls_of_Barchester_Cathedral (View Post)

I recall the story of Winston Churchill's first cocktail - he was observing the revolution in Cuba against the Spanish (1898). The Spanish column he was with got ambushed. So they ended up in th… (View Post)

Some fools argue over whether the glass is half empty or half full. I say both are wrong. The sensible *question* is "Whose round is it?" (View Post)