Monthly Archives: August 2023

Learning to follow the dots, “the art of seeing what’s in front of your eyes.” A good skill for any Traveller, but especially Scouts – military ones, in this case. Quora: Why doesn’t Putin just take out Vlodymr Zelensky like … Continue reading →

The Party — both the fictional and non-fictional one, the Chinese Communist Party and the Solomani Party — loves their race-based patriotism. Words, words, words. Today I’m going to tell you the story of Northern Myanmar or Burma, where prostitution, … Continue reading →

Remember the Golden Age authors who really were brainiacs, Asimov with hundreds of books to his name, or Clarke who dreamt up the idea of satellites? Or Robert L. Forward and his ideas of solar sails and zero-point energy batteries? … Continue reading →

From the “call a rabbit a smeerp” // “call a smeerp a rabbit” files. From Mises: Is China Colonizing Jamaica? by Lipton Matthews —<Quote begins>— The Chinese have been in Jamaica since the nineteenth century. After emancipation, planters felt that … Continue reading →

A professor that understood, somehow, to follow the dolphins. Dolphins that (for reasons unknown) somehow knew how to save a human life. A woman that, after 12 hours of swimming, cold and naked, made one last effort to wave. A … Continue reading →

Quora: Which bad rule was extremely enforced? Adam Kite – Owner at Self-Employment (2010–present) —<Quote begins>— Sunandha Kumariratana died in 1880, aged 19, victim of an absurd royal decree, which prohibited commoners from touching any member of the Thai monarchy. The queen was … Continue reading →

From Quora: Do you think the Vagner group will reltaliate against Russia? R. W. Carmichael · Former Intelligence Analyst at U.S. Air Force (1962–1970) —<Quote begins>— Nope, they are dead meat. There is an underlying problem with Wagners that complicates everything. And it is … Continue reading →

A retired spacer superhero father, tons of cool stories, comfortably well off, local respect and honour, with a joyful family. Some Travellers – big and small – get the very best life has to offer.