Where Is The Political Opposition
For we must remember that the professional politicians all stand in together when a financial swindle is being carried out. There is no “opposition” in these things. — Hilaire Belloc, The Free Press
In The Muck Again
A couple of new videos on Vita Aquatica. I usually don’t comment on them, just go with their original titles and descriptions. However, I cannot resist to comment on the new Blue World video by Jonathan Bird and his crew. It’s so cool. Anybody can dive like that. Shallow depth so long bottom time and no […]
More Videos On Vita Aquatica
New videos on Vita Aquatica, dedicated to the French pioneers of diving and a legend of underwater filming.
The Last Three Hundred Years
These processes filling the last three hundred years have been as follows: (1) A rapid extension of physical science and with it of every other form of acquaintance with demonstrable and measurable things. (2) The rise, chiefly in the new Protestant part of Europe (but spreading thence in part to the Catholic) of what we […]
Pacific Images Is Up
I started a new web page where my underwater pictures can be licensed. It is called Pacific Images. Feel free to browse or search the collection.
The Comfort Of The Dark Ages
In this closed crucible of the Dark Ages crystallized also—by a process which we cannot watch, or of which we have but glimpses—that rich mass of jewels, the local customs of Europe, and even the local dress, which differentiates one place from another, when the communications of a high material civilization break down. In all […]