Pub, a love story: Part One
A pub could be a thousand different things. meeting place, safe house, morgue, shop. If you needed bread or bail money or a blessing, it could be found in a pub.
Pub, a love story:Part Two
For many returning soldiers, the Lion was where they tried to fit back into the civilian world, to be a person again. T
Pub: a love story: Part Four
Over 15,000 pubs have closed in Britain since 2000. In Ireland, over a quarter of all pubs have closed in the last twenty years.
THE STORY OF COCAINE, PART ONE: SACRED LEAVES
High in the Andes, among the Quechua, descendants of the Inca, there is a legend.
THE STORY OF COCAINE, PART TWO: MIRACLE AND MYTH
Cocaine became a cure-all for everything that could be imagined: pain, melancholia, nervous exhaustion, impotence, and neurasthenia, the mental cost of industrial speed.
THE STORY OF COCAINE, PART THREE: WHITE LIES
How One Man’s Racism Created the War on Drugs
THE STORY OF COCAINE, PART FOUR: THE WHITE GOLD RUSH
By the 1970s, Prohibition Turned Cocaine Into Empires
Seven Deadly Sins, Part I: Money
Money can’t buy happiness, but it’s more comfortable to cry in a BMW than on a bicycle.” Origin unknown
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 2: Religion
From the first time our distant ancestors looked at the sky and thought, "Sun good, flood suck," humans have turned to the Gods to make sense of the world and to try to influence it.
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 3: Politics
In 1672 Holland, a very angry and very hungry mob were so pissed off with the wealthy political class that they killed, cooked, and ate their Prime Minister.
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 4: Control
The real division is not between conservatives and liberals but between those who believe they should control others and those who don’t. George Orwell.
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 5: Spectacle
Everything becomes easier not to truly care about when no one can tell the difference between a crisis and a show.
Seven Deadly Sins, Part 6: Consumption
There’s a point in a society’s decline where the people stop eating and start being eaten.