A tour of accents across the British Isles performed in a single, unedited 1.24 minute take
05 Jun 2014 Leave a comment
HT; Newmark’s Door
David Friedman “Global Warming, Population, and the Problem with Externality Arguments”
01 Jun 2014 Leave a comment
Ain’t no Mountain High Enough – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
14 May 2014 Leave a comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-UvQYAmbg
My favourite song.
I must admit that The Sister Act 2 version is pretty good too.
Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out With Him? (Live acappela)
11 May 2014 1 Comment
One of my favourite songs and favourite singers since high school.
Noisy kittens clamouring for dinner
02 May 2014 2 Comments
It’s so cute how they climb up the trousers of those feeding them
Dad’s Army
27 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
Don’t Tell Him Pike is the single funniest clip from the funniest BBC comedy of all time.
More on Dad’s Army is at the Dad’s Army Appreciation Society.
All of Dad’s Army is on YouTube including Deadly Attachment from which the above clip is from.
On 14 May 1940 the Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, gave a radio broadcast announcing the formation of the Local Defence Volunteers (later renamed the Home Guard).
Eden called on men between the ages of 17 and 65 who were not in military service but who wished to defend their country against an invasion to enrol at their local police station.
250,000 volunteers attempting to sign up in the first seven days; by July this number increased to 1.5 million wanting to defend their freedom.
Underneath all the satire of Dad’s Army, that courage and patriotic commitment is plain.
Col Tim Collins’ inspirational speech – Kenneth Branagh
07 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
Kenneth Branagh recreates Col. Tim Collins’ off-the-cuff speech to 1 Batt., Royal Irish Regiment, on 19 March 2003 just before the invasion of Iraq. From the BBC production 10 Days to War.
A nearby BBC journalist took this history down short-hand.
Milton Friedman on the power of greed
06 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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