The fun thing about the Duke of Edinburgh was the fact that he came from the great tribe of the Perhapsburgs, Europe's peripatetic aristocracy: always hunting down a throne, marrying it's own money, declaring eternal loyalty to whichever perch on which it can feather a nest> >until the gig goes sour, like it did with his dad, who had to lean on his connections to hustle up a British warship in anticipation of a Greek firing squad, before retiring to the casinos of Monte Carlo.>

starting my latest heart drug right about now #excited UPDATE nothing much happening with the Ramipril. Was vaguely expecting something like this:

god, this is absolute tosh. (via @BeijingPalmer ). One reason most China watchers don't believe in the virus lab nonsense is because it's completely superfluous. C-19 is a bang typical example of dysfunctional CPC governance> thehill.com/opinion/intern… >which this time happened to have global consequences. A few years back someone dumped thousands of dead pigs in the Huangpu river and no-one knew anything about it till they started floating through suburban Shanghai. Thousands of dead pigs, just rolling down the river>