I’m reading Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver – the first book of The Baroque Cycle, which, if it is half as good as The Cryptonomicon, I’ll be thrilled.

Tom Luongo – NATO and Russia — Whistling Past Each Other’s Graveyards

2022 is turning out to be a lot like 1666, when the plague washed clean the old notions of Europe and invited the Enlightenment. Prepare for Renaissance 2.0.

Meetings of the Royal Society in 1670 wer mostly a gathering of lunatics with various cliams and inventions. It’s the same reason we can’t have Open Mike nights.

The King named a Puritan Earl of Peniston, so that he would be forced to write Penis.