Some are funny and there is no argument against them particularly, people need amusing distractions. But some of the images and wording of facebook and other places are bold statements with no references and no balance and certainly no attempt to be fair-minded. This is a problem. When I sat my interview for college I…
Cleaning
I know spring is the time to clean the house, and I don’t even have a very big place, but I have not really cleansed it except in the middle for a year or more. Now I have friends who want to stay I started by cleaning the outside windows yesterday and the shower room…
We Handle Money Badly
The money system will always make wealthy people and poor people. Money has no ethics unless we put them into the system, otherwise it only wants to make more of itself. It allows avarice and vanity and greed to be rewarded even when laws are broken and people are hurt. It is ludicrous in a…
Tonight in the World
North Korean troops onto the Russian front against Ukraine. If any one thing marks the beginning of the end for the totalitarian regime in North Korea, it is this. Ukraine will not forget this betrayal by a country so far away. This is repayment of the Russian support for China/Korea in the Korean war. Meanwhile…
The Shame of Absolutes
The world is messy. Nature is messy. Not in the sense of chaotic, there are huge amounts of order, but in terms of the admixture of characteristics and outcomes. Shapes and types of emotions. Expectations and some downright luck. And into the messy nature we think we can parachute absolutes and have them make sense….
On A Walk with Rusty
I walked upon the beach at Daymer Bay With Rusty by my side as dawn arose And somewhere in that dawn, we touched a day Where sea, and dog and man could still compose A song that all of nature could complete; Whose harmonies within the hollow shells And Undulating dunes beside bare feet Sang…
Conflict and Countries
Every country in the world has create itself through internal and external wars. No matter how small or large. The history of armed warfare is the history of the human race and much of the better side of humanity – the hopes for peace, the wisdom of civil society, the ethics of laws and trade…
Singing
I don’t know about the rest of you but when I am in a car by myself i usually start singing at some stage. today on a six hour journey to London i did a bit more than usual and started to make songs up based on the road signs. Rhyming became optional the more…
Celebrity
The dash for celebrity brings with it a mass of hangers-on whose main interest is their own and using the names to bring in investment. It gets to such a degree f vanity that they think celebrities expect it and don’t even trouble themselves about using another person without seeing or dealing with the person….
I had to Smile
Someone on linked In made the comment that capitalism would never go away. Given that it is a system and all systems made by human beings fail at some point, given that it relies upon relentless growth on a finite planet and given that book-and-bust cycles are inherent to the system, H suggested people would…