I have read a lot about World War Two like ever child of the sixties it is after all, the war ‘par excellence’. I have not commented on whether Roosevelt knew about the Japanese attack before hand and used it as an excuse to get over opposition in Washington to joining the war, or whether…
Month: December 2011
Changing The Tune
Many years ago I heard a story about a man who studied to be a doctor when young, had to go to war and life took over and went back to his studies finishing when he was forty or so and when asked why he said he could still give twenty years to the profession….
So Many Leaders
I am tired of people who want to rule me and join parliaments to serve themselves, their families and their class. I am tired of being told I need these people when I don’t and actually, as long as we have effective laws, none of us do. I am tired of seeing suits meeting in…
FootSteps Press
I received notice today that FootSteps Press was incorporated on 5th December 2011. FootSteps Press Ltd., is registered as a publisher with lightning source who we anticipate will become our printers. We will be bringing established authors and new authors to the market place by using software that digitally prepares books and prints them on…
Ways Of Thinking
Human beings have ways of thinking that are generational and learned. There is nothing in and of itself either inherently mistaken or dangerous about this fact. Where the danger comes in is with the more animal approach to survival which is less about thought and more about one’s presence in the world of nature. The…
Edmund Spenser
My Love Is Like To Ice My love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not allayed by…
W H Auden
The Unknown Citizen (To JS/07 M 378 This Marble Monument Is Erected by the State) He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agree That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,…
Exams and Playtime
There is a report out that suggests that exam results are poorer if the exams are held during big football events. Never having been a follower of sport I don’t exactly see the importance but I can see several things about this that show how weak our priorities are becoming. For those who don’t revise…
December, December
There was a time I could have started a chat about December with a welcome to the month of Christmas but marketing means it is more like welcome to the third and final month of Christmas. I recall seeing a TV show about the Amazon and some rain-forest tribesmen coming across a wild bee hive…