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Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Injured on the Commute… While Working From Home? One major perk of working from home is having no commute. Well, a shorter commute. You
Elon Musk didn’t have a care in the world last week as he hilariously mocked questions in a live interview with the Wall Street Journal. The Journal’s reporter had essentially prepared a number of softball questions designed for Elon to praise the US government’s new ‘Build Back Better’ bill. If you haven’t heard,
Two Weeks in an Australian COVID prison Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Australian Woman Describes Two Weeks in Quarantine Camp A 26 year old woman from Australia, Hayley Hodgson,
Leonardo da Vinci’s painting and engineering skills were so highly renowned that he was in extremely high demand among European nobility in the early Renaissance. Leonardo started in the independent city-state of Florence as an apprentice artist, where he worked for the famous Medici family. Then in the early 1480s, da Vinci went
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Santa Cruz California Issues Mask Mandate for Private Residences Now that another COVID variant has emerged with a scary new name, governments are excited
In early 2007, the brand new District Attorney for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin gave an interview to a local newspaper spelling out his ‘progressive’ approach to crime. He told the reporter: “Is there going to be an individual I divert [i.e. release back onto the street] or I put into treatment program, who’s going
In 1894, a retired university professor named Paul Bachman was living out his golden years in Weimar, Germany. Recently divorced, Bachman filled his days writing books, including what would become a five volume series… about analytical number theory. It wasn’t exactly a James Bond novel; number theorists study things like prime numbers, infinity,
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. True story about woman’s captivity by terrorists could “foster Islamophobia” A Toronto-based book club whose members are primarily teenage girls regularly works with local
When Sultan Abdulmejid I of the Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia in the summer of 1854, he assumed it would be an easy victory that would restore his crumbling empire back to its former glory. But Abdulmejid’s dream never came true. The Ottoman Empire was already in dire economic condition by the
In early January 1964, barely six weeks after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, US President Lyndon Johnson delivered a speech to the American people in which he declared an “unconditional war.” But he didn’t declare war on Vietnam. Or Cuba. Or the Soviet Union. Johnson declared war on poverty. And in his
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Cities in India Will Lockdown Over Air Pollution The Supreme Court of India has ordered India’s capital, New Delhi, and the surrounding regions to
By the turn of the century in the year 1600, the City of London was booming. It was the Age of Shakespeare and Francis Bacon (the father of the scientific method). And London’s population had doubled in the previous 25 years. London’s fast growth, however, was totally unplanned. And many neighborhoods had become
Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. MSNBC Calls Black Lt. Gov a White Supremacist The outgoing governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, was pictured in his college yearbook dressed in black
In the year 552 BC in the province of Persis in modern day Iran, a local sheepherder started a revolt against his ruler, King Astyages of the Median Empire. The sheepherder’s name was Cyrus, though he would become known to history as Cyrus the Great. Cyrus led the rebellion against Astyages for three
More than four thousand years ago around 2112 BC, King Ur-Nammu of ancient Sumeria gathered his scribes together to dictate a series of royal decrees, all of which were chiseled onto cuneiform tablets. A handful of these tablets were discovered and translated in the 20th century, making the Code of Ur-Nammu the oldest
