by Lynn C. Rees | Aug 7, 2015 | Monitor
[by Lynn C. Rees] Listening to episodes of The History of England Podcast umpteen times as I code Java, TypeScript, *, &tc., I’ve heard host David Crowther (a “bloke in a shed”) make the point umpteen times that the primary job of a king of...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jun 6, 2015 | Monitor
Tank Man Let’s go back to June 5, 1989, to Peking, to this very spot. On arrival, recovering from a bad case of time lag, we notice Clausewitz’s disembodied floating head circling the scene. No one else see’s the Clausewitz head. A sensible...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some surprising twists here, if you think of IS as entirely lacking compassion or religious and moral consideration ] . I am going to take the religious issues out of their original order to create a smoother reading experience with regard...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — first of three posts collecting key points from a major article on Yazidi women, IS & possibilities of rescue ] . Today Matthew Barber posted one of the saddest stories I have read in several years of monitoring religious violence on...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jun 15, 2013 | Monitor
[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? Colonel Hamilton Alexander Hamilton thought he knew. And who is Colonel Hamilton (as he so liked to be called) that he should know? Not (then) Colonel Hamilton...
