The Webb telescope has been redefining high resolution ands given us broader and deeper insights into the nebula and planet formation in deep space. The beauty of the resultant images cannot be denied and one hopes the scientists have managed to get the colours right, yet in this beauty are terrifying energies and powers that…
Month: August 2024
Stabbings
With the murder of a thirteen year old I hear the police stating they will find the perpetrator but he also added we need to get to the root of the problem and if these stabbings have something to do with bad parenting. I think it would go without saying that anyone who kills may…
6 a.m.
Here in Cornwall even now as autumn begins it is difficult to get away from crowds. Why would I want to get away from crowds? Because they are not here for the benefit of the county but to forget where they have to live and work. In the years since the 1970s when tourism really…
Lying Isn’t the Problem
Lying is part of the evolution of mind and is everywhere in every human interaction and country. The problem isn’t that lying exists or even how to recognise a lie, it is how we handle lies. If we take it as read that we are lied to all the time the need to be able…
The poor celebrity
I am not surprised by actresses like Jolie and Arab/Muslim members of Congress or any Parliament around the world damning Israel. They are not great intellects, they are not significant thinkers, they are not historians and certainly not ethicists. And to crticize Israel based on the ethics Judaism has taught them has a certain quality…
The Donkey
The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil’s walking parody On all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve,…
There Be Dragons
The new issue of the New Art Examiner is a your-de-force of articles about dragons and dragon literature and myths around the world. But that was not the most interesting element to the theme because ceramics and paintings exist dealing with every myth. No, the most ingesting thing was the Oxford English Dictionary derivation of…
Travelling Light
I made the train journey to London over night the past two days with one change of a shirt for a meeting. The train up, contrary to many things I have been told, was straightforward and easy even to the underground in London. The journey back was a touch more complicated as I had to…
Why A School?
In World War Two every child in the major cities of the UK was evacuated an the small ones who stayed with their parents spent many nights underground to protect them. It seems absurd to me after months that a school in Gaza would still be a school or that a single child would be…
Never Talk to the Police
I have just listened to an American defence attorney and a veteran investigator for the Venice Beach police about being a suspect. Both men said that the instinct of the innocent is to answer questions asked by the police but the advice is to never say a word. The reason they gave is very simple:…