Nowadays America has government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires. (but then it almost always did apart from a few shining hours here and there). And billionaires around the world are in a hurry to emulate Trumperica.
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When I was younger I thought that the 20th century would see the end of Fascism and the beginning of the end of Religion. That Science would result in an informed populace in relation to Evolution and Cosmology and Ecology. That Medical Science, through vaccination, would see the end of many common diseases, and the
I spent the first 75 years learning the names of everyone and everything, and the next seven and a half years forgetting them.
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When I was younger, a teenager perhaps, or aged in my 20s and 30s, my friends and I had conversations about science, philosophy, literature, atheism, film, history, careers, politics. Now I am 80 we talk about cancer, heart attacks, bone breakage, kidney failure, dementia, liver disease, sleep problems, failing senses.
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Just a reminder. My latest memoir has recently appeared: This is the prequel chronologically to my earlier memoir which is still available: Hope you all enjoy if you haven\’t already…
Listening to a lot of religious lunatics who log in to atheist talk shows I wonder wonder why people can believe in a god who by its very definition, being supernatural, is undetectable in the natural world. And, as a sub clause, why they believe that the writers of their various holy books, being written
You\’d think …. well, I\’d think … that the days of the internet and DuckDuckGo would have led to such an explosion of accesible knowledge as to see the end of religious belief. I know, naive, the religious parasite always finds a way to survive and thrive. I had pictured people who knew nothing of
What happened to the America that produced Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez? And what happened to the Americans who bought their records in millions and attended their concerts in thousands? Asking for a friend.
As I slowly return to the land of the blogger after very little activity for the last 2 and a half years I thought I should lay down some blog markers for my subscribers and casual visitors. Your host is Australian by birth and British by ancestry. I became an Atheist at a young age,
After 62 years I have had to give up driving because of health concerns (and the effects of medications). An odd feeling. And a feeling of accelerating ageing… Me, aged 18, in 1963 with my well-polished first car, on steep Devon Road hill.
