And that is because there really is no such thing as the nation of Afghanistan for which to have a national army. It's hard to have an effective national army without a nation. (View Post)

Afghanistan or Brexit? (View Post)

What we're seeing now in new cases and hospitalizations is the consequence of unlockdown. Which are remarkably few in my view. Each subsequent wave will have less amplitude, like the dampened su… (View Post)

Reminds me of 'cometh the hour, cometh the man'. Which I had thought to be a literary or biblical quote, but apparently is a cricketer from 1948. (View Post)

There is the well-documented Kitty Genovese effect, even if that effect was not really in play in Kitty's own case, after which the effect is named. Namely, the more people who are around when a… (View Post)