From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
ArsTechnica – by Scharon Harding
England’s Manchester City soccer club wants to know how its fans really feel, and it has gone so far as to pilot The Connected Scarf, a “smart scarf” stuffed with sensors that the organization says enables it to gauge fan emotions. Continue reading “Manchester City smart scarf wraps data-collecting sensors around fans’ necks”
Shocking video shows the moments a New Jersey councilwoman allegedly plowed down a bicyclist while speeding through an intersection and kept going in an apparent hit-and-run accident. Continue reading “New Jersey councilwoman refuses to resign over video showing alleged hit-and-run crash with cyclist”
Today I came across a grand absurdity in the form of a quote by one Harold Nicolson, a British politician and journalist. He died in 1968, but not before writing a couple of books on (get this) the value and benefits of MONARCHY!! I do not know which of his books contained the following quote, but found his defense of monarchy to be a dutiful upholding of the lie of that institution and of all the injustices it has dealt over the centuries. I post it here to demonstrate the sugar-poison that was served. This is the quote in three paragraphs: Continue reading “Quote and Comment on Monarchy”