Over Christmas I’ve had some spare time. This has permitted me to get the Atlas of Economics Models off the ground. This is a project I’ve been thinking about for some years, first motivated really by the experience of trying to discover what variations had been done on the basic Hotelling-line model of ‘spatial’ [...]
7/10. Beautifully shot, intelligently scripted and well-acted this was a revisionist western where shootings, including that of James himself, were in the back and outlaws aren’t romantic heroes but incompetent psychopaths living out dull existences while the law, betrayal or poverty slowly catches up with them.
From, Sexuality: A Biopsychosocial Approach by Chess Denman, p. 54:
Politicians and the press have created an image of a tidal wave of teen parenthood, caused by young women’s unregulated sexual behaviour and poor women sponging off the state, even though this is unwarranted. In America, for example, teen motherhood cannot be said to have [...]
5.5/10. The latest outing from Werner Herzog features Christian Bale in the based-on-true-life story of a German-born US pilot who escapes from a hellish NV/VietCong prisoner of war camp after being shot-down and captured over Laos during the early stages of the Vietnam War. While better than Herzog’s last fiction outing (the abysmal Invincible) this [...]
6/10. While not actually bad, given the quality of the original books, this was a rather disappointing effort.
[After describing how the Romans behaved towards other powers both large and small] Because the Romans did in these instances what all prudent princes ought to do — taking care to concern themselves not only with present troubles, but also future ones. For these they prepared with every effort, because, when distant, it is easy [...]
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