Other than pointing out, er, recent history has smashed the complacency of liberal democracy in the face. Will it fight back? (View Post)

The gay gene bucks the trend? (View Post)

The bigger problem was not finding reserves, but development targets. The same was true under Saddam. The Iraqi oilfields had ridiculously low production targets. Reason being, if you missed them, yo… (View Post)

Soviet geologists in the oil and gas sector were pretty good. No reason to doubt they wouldn't be pretty handy at finding minerals too. (View Post)

I wonder if this is how it goes now - every time one of the MAGA crowd steps out of line, there's a host of FBI/CIA waiting to drop them in it. (View Post)