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• The problem is not that our politicians are more devious but that we have stopped caring

  By Shaun on August 5, 2021

  

  As a man of tremendous integrity, humanity and constitutional understanding, Hennessy is the embodiment of what a “good chap” might look like. But the theory itself is more doubtful, either as an account of the past or an explanation for… Read More ›

• How The Left Wrist Became The Right Wrist

  By Shaun on August 5, 2021

  

  And what happened next? You know what happened next. The pocket watch faded into oblivion, except as an object of fascination for the few, and the wristwatch became the ubiquitous and universal tool for portable timekeeping. And most of the… Read More ›

• How does this person get through the day?

  By Shaun on August 4, 2021

  

  This tweet struck me in so many different ways, and few of them are positive. It would appear that the word Pfizer = 666 if you discount the letters P, Z and E, and if you turn the 9 upside… Read More ›

• What if the Olympic Games never come back?

  By Shaun on August 4, 2021

  

  Eight months after these two very different gatherings in Tokyo, the IOC announced that the 2020 Olympics were going to be postponed by a full year due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. By the time they made the announcement, most… Read More ›

• Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking

  By Shaun on August 4, 2021

  

  In this wise and very funny journey into the outrage industry, Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles explores how by shouting about everything, we have lost sight of the fights that actually matter – and created a world where our outrage feels with… Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 72 (Can only men and women compete in the Olympics?)

  By Shaun on August 3, 2021

  

  Joanne and I discuss Laurel Hubbard’s participation in the Olympics as a transgender athlete. We thought we knew where we were with the subject until the end and then it hit us. It came to us that this cannot be… Read More ›

• AirPods Pro still making me dizzy…

  By Shaun on August 3, 2021

  

  I wrote about the AirPods Pro and the sense that they made me dizzy with noise cancellation on some time back, and now I can confirm that it definitely happens. A week ago I found myself feeling dizzy and verging… Read More ›

• Lamborghini Huracan Testing

  By Shaun on August 3, 2021

  

  In November 2020, B is for Build introduced the worlds first off-road Lamborghini Huracan build – The Jumpacan – to race The Mint 400 off-road race in Las Vegas, NV December 1-5, 2021. We caught up with owner Chris Steinbacher… Read More ›

• The Tissot Seastar 2000 Professional

  By Shaun on August 3, 2021

  

  An automatic watch is powered by the energy of the person who wears it. Wrist movement enables the mechanism to run. The Powermatic 80 movement boasts 80 hours of power reserve, which is enough to continue telling time accurately even… Read More ›

• 1 in 100,000 will die…

  By Shaun on August 2, 2021

  

  Of the 164 million vaccinated Americans, less than 0.1% have been infected with the coronavirus, and 0.001% have died, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why it matters: While “breakthrough cases” have been getting some… Read More ›

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